Chords for Todd Rundgren & Taj Mahal - Never Mind the Why and Wherefore

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_ _ Never mind, though I am wherefore love [B] can never answer,
Therefore, though his lordship's [C#m] station might [E] most stupendous be [B] his [F#] brain,
Though her taste are mean and flighty [F] and her [B] fortune poor and plain. _ _
Greeting the merry mails of boardship,
Brend the air with warbling wild,
For you be [E] love's boardship with [F#] a humble _
[B] captain's child,
[G] For a humble _ [B] captain's daughter,
_ [Em] For a _ gallant's _ [B] daughter,
_ And [G] a loy who rules the [B] water, _
And a [Em] tar who ploughs [B] the water.
_ _ _ [E] Let there with joy be laid in great bliss all the air above,
For the union of the maiden with the man who holds her [F#] love.
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_ _ _ _ _ Never mind, though I am wherefore [B] love can never answer,
Therefore, though her [G] nautical [E] relation in my sentence [B] scarcely pass,
[F#] Though your [B] occupy a station in the lower fiddler old class.
_ Greeting the merry bells of boardship,
Brend the air with warbling wild,
For the union of the lordship with a humble _ captain's child, _ _
_ _ [G] For a humble [B] captain's daughter,
_ [Em] For a _ gallant's _ [B] daughter,
_ _ [G] And a loy who rules the [B] water, _
_ _ [E] And a tar who ploughs [B] _ the water.
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Let there with joy be laid in great bliss all the air above,
For the union of the maiden with the man who holds her [F#] love.
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Never mind, though I am wherefore [B] love can never answer,
Therefore, [E] I admit the [C#m] jurisdiction ably have you [B] played your [C#] part,
You have carried [B] from conviction to my _ hesitating heart.
_ Bring the merry bells [F#] of boardship,
[B] Brend the air with warbling wild,
For the union [E] of the lordship with a [F#] humble [B] captain's child, _
_ [G] _ For a humble captain's [B] daughter,
_ [Em] For a _ _ gallant's [B] _ daughter,
_ And [G] a loy who rules [B] the water,
_ And [E] a tar who ploughs [B] the _ water. _ _ _
Let there with joy be laid in great bliss all the air [E] above,
For the union of the maiden with the _ man _ _ _ who holds her love.
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