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Music by Jim Delahunty

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C F C
I’ve traded with the Maori, Brazilians and Chinese
F C G C
I’ve courted dark-eyed beauties, beneath the kauri trees.
C F C
I’ve travelled along with a laugh and a song in the land where they call you mate
F C G C
Around the Horn and home again, for that is the sailor’s fate.

Chorus
Am
Across the Line
C
The Gulf Stream
F C
I’ve been in Table Bay.
Am
Around the Horn
C
And home again
Am G C
For that is the sailor’s way.

I’ve run aground in many a sound, without a pilot aboard
Longboat lowered by lantern light, pushed off and gently oared.
Row-lock creaking, a thumping swell and a wind that’d make you ache
Who would sail the seven seas and share a sailor’s fate?

We’ve sailed away to Northward, we’ve hauled away to East
We’ve skimmed our sail in the teeth of a gale and stood in the calmest seas
We’ve set our course by a Southern Star, by Stewart through the Strait
Westward round by Milford Sound, for that is the sailor’s fate.

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from NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL SEA SHANTIES vol. 1, released July 1, 2013

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