Wave over Wave
Jim Payne
Strum: B D U D U
1 + 2 + 3 +
Chord Guide3 4
G: 3x0003 / 132
D: xx0232 / 12
Em: 022000 / 32 1
C: x32010
2 4
G/B: x20003
G D Em G
Me name's Able Rogers, a shareman am I
C G C D
On a three-masted schooner from Twillingate Isle
C D G G/B
I've been the world over, north, south, east, and west
C G C D
But the middle of nowhere's where I like it best
Chorus:
C G Em G
Where it's wave over wave, sea over bow
C G C D
I'm as happy a man as the sea will allow
C D G G/B
There's no other life for a sailor like me
C G C D
But to sail the salt sea, boys, sail the sea
G G/B D G (2)
There's no other life but to sail the salt sea
G D Em G
The work it is hard and the hours are long
C G C D
My spirit is willing, my back it is strong
C D G G/B
And when our work's over then whiskey we'll pour
C G C D
We'll dance with the girls upon some foreign shore
Chorus
G D Em G
I'd leave my wife lonely ten months of the year
C G C D
She made me a home and raised my children dear
C D G G/B
But she'd never come out to bid farewell to me
C G C D
Or ken why a sailor must sail the salt sea
Chorus
G D Em G
I've sailed the wide oceans four decades or more
C G C D
And many times wondered what I do it for
C D G G/B
I don't know the answer, it's pleasure and pain
C G C D
With life to live over, I'd do it again
Final Chorus:
C G Em G
Where it's wave over wave, sea over bow
C G C D
I'm as happy a man as the sea will allow
C D G G/B
There's no other life for a sailor like me
C G C D
But to sail the salt sea, boys, sail the sea
G G/B D C G
There's no other life but to sail the salt sea
C G C D
Sail the salt sea, boys, sail the sea
G G/B D G (hold)
There's no other life but to sail the salt sea