[D] The skipper called “we'll [D/C#] row the boat� .
[D/B] Ten days from Bristol and [*] fish on the floor.
Not a [D] breath of wind to [Em] fill the sail.
Oh! [Gm] Davy Jones; bring us [A] home this day.
(repeat same chord sequence for all verses)
Where our wives are waiting on the dock.
Babes in arms for a sign they watch.
And the bells of the church are calling shrill.
“Ah! Davy Jones; bring them home this day� .
[soc]
(CHORUS)
So, [G] row boys, [Gm] row boys.
For this [D] sea has claimed your [Em] friends and your kin.
[G] Sing boys, [Gm] sing boys.
And [D] pray for a home blowing [G] wind.
And [Gm] pray for a Bristol bound [D] wind.
[eoc]
We've worked on these seas since time has began.
Generations of seamen, cant work on the land.
A place on the boat from father to son.
And when the sea takes my body, my son will step up.
But today I must row for there is no fair wind.
And tomorrow I wed so my child has a name.
And Lord may I hear my son's hungry wail.
Oh! Davy Jones, bring me home this day.
[soc]
(REPEAT CHORUS)
[eoc]
As night starts to fall and the light fails us too.
A breeze from the west, are we saved all this crew.
As we row up the Severn, pass the worm to the north.
See the lights of the taverns, taste the ale in the jar.
The skipper says “row lads our homes are in sight� .
“We'll unload this fish and drink beer tonight� .
We're rowing in darkness, no light from the moon.
And the deep comes to claim us, there's a ship in the gloom.
[soc]
(CHORUS)
We [G] rowed boys, [Gm] rowed boys.
For this [D] sea has claimed all our [Em] friends and our kin.
[G] Swim boys, it's [Gm] grim boys.
[D] Oh for the home blowing [G] wind.
[Gm] Oh for a Bristol bound [D] wind.
[eoc]
