Tonalité : B major
Verse 1
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Bm
My name is Isaac Lewis,
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D
I'm an able -bodied hand
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Bm
I bought the Royal Charter,
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D
bound for Australia's strand
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The season took six months to cross,
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we could do in two
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Bm
So, down the River Mersey,
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D
G
from Liverpool we drew, sail on.
Well, some of us were sailors,
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D
shipmates young and old,
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And some of us were pioneers,
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seeking for the gold.
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We had merchants, musicians,
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Christian soldiers of the cross.
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We stood in the stern and watched awake,
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saw our futures in the froth
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And every night I dreamed a dream
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as the wind sang in the sails
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That I was in my father's house
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D
in Anglesey, North Wales
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And I reached out to my father,
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said I love you very much
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Then the ship turned over
and the dream was gone before
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D
we got to touch
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Bm
Oh, tied up in Botany Bay,
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the lads went on the town
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And I fell in love with Emma Grey,
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she wore a silken gown
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I swore that I'd return for her
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one more trip at sea
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I had need to see my father,
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tell him what he meant to me
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Sail on, sail on and on and on
My name is Isaac Lewis,
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G
this is my song
Well I kissed the lips of Emma Grey
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And sailed for Liverpool
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G
With parrots perching in the tops
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The dolphins swam in schools
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The trip it was a pleasant one
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Till we sighted Wales
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Then just one day from Liverpool,
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God, he sent the gale
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Great God, I've seen some stones,
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lad, hurricanes at sea
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And oft times I've repented,
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all on my bended knee
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But I never knew it'd blow so hard,
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we anchored her at last
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But the anchors didn't hold,
Em
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D
we had to cut the mast
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Sail on
And the mining magnets
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clutched their gold
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Believing they'd be saved
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Bm
But their greed destroyed them
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beneath the angry waves
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G
All the women and the children,
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too, lost to eternity
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Where man has tamed and shaped the land
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He cannot chase the sea
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Sail on
Sail on and on and on
Em
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My name is Isaac Lewis
D
G
This is my song
We were fast upon the rocks
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Just ten yards from the shore
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I saw men standing on those rocks
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Maybe a score or more
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And I swear I saw my father there
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Waving through the squall
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And I yelled that I was coming home
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No more I can recall
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And every night I dreamed a dream
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As the wind sang in the sails
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That I was in my father's house
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D
In Anglesey, North Wales
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Then I reached out to my father
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Said I love you very much
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Then the ship turned over
And the dream was gone
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D
before we got to touch
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Sail on
Then the waves,
they swept me overboard
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With the wreckage and the dross
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And I drowned,
whereas a boy I'd fished
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All on those very rocks
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In three days' time I'd washed up
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On a golden sandy shore
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Just a hundred yards from Wulfra
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And my father's open door
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Sail on
Else you may say coincidence
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Such stories cannot be true
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But I say tell your loved ones
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Just what they mean to you
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Or you may sail the seas of life
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Pursuing all your schemes
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And drown before you reach your goal
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The object of your dreams
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Sail on
Sail on and on and on,
Em
Bm
my name is Isaac Lewis,
D
this has been my song.
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AccordsD G Bm C Em
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