Single Handed Sailor 1

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  • Intro: Dm / C : G (2 times)
     
    Dm C Bb F
  • Two in the morning bright uptown
    ( Two in the morning dry-dock town)
    Dm C Bb - F
  • The river run away in the night
    (The river rolled away in the night)
    Dm C Bb F
  • Little Gypsy mare she's all tied down
    (Little _Gypsy Moth_ she's all tied down)
    (Little gypsy mom she's all tied down)
  • Dm C Bb - F
    She put her in the wind and the light
    (She quiver in the wind down the light)
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    (Same chords as above)
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    Yeah, the sailing ship is just held down in chains
    (Yeah, the sailing ship is just a-held down in chains)
  • (The sailing ship is just held with chains)
    From the lazy days of sailing
    (From the lazy days of sail)
  • She's just lying there silent in pain
    (She's just lying there, silent pain)
    You lean on the tourist rail
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    Am Dm Dm-C-Bb
    A mother and her baby in the college of war
  • (A mother and her baby and the College of war)
    C
    In the concrete grave
  • (And the concrete grave)
    Dm C Bb F
    You never want to fight against the river law
  • Gm Bb
    Nobody rules the waves
     
  • C A7 Dm
    Yeah, on a night when the lazy wind is wailing
    Bb C
  • Around the cutting saw
    (Around the _Cutty Sark_)
    Dm C Bb F
  • Single-handed sailor go sailing
    Gm Bb
    Singing away in the dark
  • (Sailing away in the dark)
     
    (Guitar: Dm / C : G)
  • He's up on the bridge on the self-say night
    (He's up on the bridge on the self-same night)
    A mariner of dried-up land
  • (A mariner of dry-dock land)
    Two in the morning, well there's one green light
    And the man on the barge is sad
  • (And the man on the barge is sayin')
     
    She's gonna step away below him
  • ('She's a-gonna slip away below him)
    Away from things he's done
    But he just shouts, "Hey man whatcha call this thing?"
  • She could say, "Pride of London"
    (Could say, 'Pride of London')
     
  • On a night when the lazy wind is wailing
    Around the cutting saw
    (Around the _Cutty Sark_)
  • Yeah, single-handed sailor go sailing
    Singing away in the dark
    (Sailing away in the dark)
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    For the intro: I tried to play the long note as a slide note. I have to say
    that it sounds much better.
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    Tab notation followed:-----------------
    10^12 : slide from 10th to 12th fret
  • 10^(12) : bending (one tone) on 10th fret
    (12)^10 : descending bend note on 10th fret
    10vv : vibrato note
  • 10>12 : hammer on
    12<10 : pull off
     
  • ---------------10----------
    -----------10------13^15vv-
    ----10>12------------------
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    ---------------10---------------
    -----------10------13^15.--15vv-
  • ----10>12-----------------------
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    ---------------10----------
  • -----------10------13vv----
    ----10>12------------------
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  • ---------------------------
    -----------10------13^(15)-
    ----10>12------10----------
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    ---------------10----------
  • -----------10------13^15vv-
    ----10>12------------------
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  • ---------------10---------------
    -----------10------13^15.--15vv-
    ----10>12-----------------------
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    ---------------10----------
    -----------10------13vv----
  • ----10>12------------------
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    ------------------------------15----------------------------------------
  • -----------10------13^(15)--------(15)^13-------------------------------
    ----10>12------10--------------------------10>13<13---------------------
    -----------------------------------------------------12<10>12<10--------
  • ------------------------------------------------------------------12vv--
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