Tonalité : D major
Intro 1
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Dsus4
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Verse 1
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Sterling
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Hayden on a barge in Amsterdam
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One of those backwater Dutch canals
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A bottle of Johnny Walker
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between his legs
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Drunk but articulate as hell
Verse 2
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He was saying, "Yeah,
I ratted on people
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During the McCarthy hearings, huh,
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you haven't the foggiest notion
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Of the contempt I have for myself,
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maybe that's why we drink, eh?
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Some damn thing, shipwrecks the heart,
huh? Yah"
Verse 3
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Sterling Hayden on a three-
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masted schooner
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Kidnapped his kids and sailed
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'round the globe
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But a man can sail around in one big circle
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And not escape his
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wounded sailor's soul
Verse 4
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So heave her up the main sail, boys
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Heave her up and away we'll go
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We're bound for the bay
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where the white whale plays
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In the midnight straits of Jericho
Verse 5
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And if ever I return, Pretty Peggy O
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All your cities I will burn,
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yes, I would
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With your cardboard sea
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and your paper moon
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O'er the penny arcade called Holly
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wood
Interlude 1
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Verse 6
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He ran guns through the German
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lines in World War II
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The Viking God stood six- feet- five
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Played in 'Johnny Guitar and The
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Asphalt Jungle'
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'The Killing' and 'The
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Long Goodbye'
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I saw him once on the Johnny
Carson show
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Late in his troubled career
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He said, "Just give me a room
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over lookin' the Hudson
With a mattress and a typewriter
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and I'll write you
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A helluva novel, my dears"
Verse 8
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So here's to all the tough guy actors
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And the false gods who made
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'em
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And wherever he sails tonight
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on the Seven Seas
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May the Lord sail with Sterling Hayden
Outro 1
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