Row Bullies Row

{title: Row Bullies Row}
{artist: Traditional (as performed by Ewan MacColl)}

{start_of_verse}
[F] From Liverpool to Frisco a[Bb]rovin’ I [C] went for to 
[F] stay in that [C] country it [F] was my intent 
[F] But girls and strong whisky like [Bb] other damn [F] fools  
[F] I soon was trans[C]ported back [F] to Liver[Eb]pool singing 
{end_of_verse}

{start_of_chorus}
[F] Row [Bb] row bullies [C] Row  
Them [F] Liverpool [C] girls they have [F] got us in tow [F] 
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{start_of_verse}
[F] I shipped on the Alaska lying [Bb] out in the [C] bay 
[F] waiting for a [C] fair wind to [F] get underway 
[F] The sailors all drunk and their [Bb] backs is all [F] sore
[F] Their whiskey’s all [C] gone and they [F] can’t get no [Eb] more singing 
{end_of_verse}

{start_of_chorus}
[F] Row [Bb] row bullies [C] Row  
Them [F] Liverpool [C] girls they have [F] got us in tow [F] 
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{start_of_verse}
[F] Along comes the mate with his [Bb] jacket of [C] blue all 
[F] looking [C] work for us [F] sailors to do 
[F] It’s gyp tops’l halyards he [Bb] loudly does [F] roar saying
[F] Lay aloft [C] Paddy you [F] son of a [Eb] whore singing 
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{start_of_chorus}
[F] Row [Bb] row bullies [C] Row  
Them [F] Liverpool [C] girls they have [F] got us in tow [F] 
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{start_of_verse}
[F] One night off Cape Horn we were [Bb] crossing the [C] line when I 
[F] think on it [C] now sure we [F] had a good time 
[F] She was diving bows under the [Bb] sailors all [F] wet
[F] She was doing twelve [C] knots with the [F] main skys’l [Eb] set singing 
{end_of_verse}

{start_of_chorus}
[F] Row [Bb] row bullies [C] Row  
Them [F] Liverpool [C] girls they have [F] got us in tow [F] 
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{start_of_outro}
[F] Here’s a health to our captain where[Bb]e’er he may [C] be he’s a 
[F] friend to the [C] sailors on [F] land or on sea 
[F] But as for our first mate that [Bb] dirty old [F] brute 
[F] I hope when he [C] dies straight to [F] hell he’ll sky[Eb]oot singing 
[F] Row [Bb] row bullies [C] Row  
Them [F] Liverpool [C] girls they have [F] got us in tow [F] 
{end_of_outro}