{Verse} [G] Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call [C G] Wanted to sail upon your waters since I was three feet tall [ Am7 Bm7 Am7 G] You’ve seen it all, you’ve seen it all

{Verse} [G] Watch the men who rode you, switch from sails to steam [ C G] And in your belly you hold the treasure that few have ever seen [ Am7 Bm7 Am7 G] Most of them dreams, most of them dreams

{Verse} [G] Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years too late [ C] The cannons don’t thunder, there’s nothin’ to plunder, I’m an over forty [ G] victim of fate [ Am7 Bm7 Am7 G] Arriving too late, arriving too late

{Verse} [G] I’ve done a bit of smugglin’ and I’ve run my share of grass [ C G] I made enough money to buy Miami but I pissed it away so fast [ Am7 Bm7 Am7 G] Never meant to last, never meant to last

{Verse} [G] I have been drunk now for over two weeks [ G] I passed out and I rallied and I sprung a few leaks [ C] But I’ve got to stop wishin’, got to go fishin’, I’m down to rock bottom [ G] again [ Am7 Bm7 Am7 G] With just a few friends, just a few friends

{Instrumental} | G | G | G | G | | C | C | C | G | | Am7 | Bm7 Am7 | G | G |

{Verse} [G] I go for younger women, lived with several awhile [ C G] Though I ran ‘em away, they come back one day, I still could manage to smile [ Am7 Bm7 Am7 G] It just takes a while, it just takes a while

{Verse} [G] Mother, mother ocean, after all the years I’ve found [ C G] My occupational hazard being my occupation’s just not around [ Am7 Bm7 Am7 G] I feel like I’ve drowned, gonna head uptown [ Am7 Bm7 Am7 G] I feel like I’ve drowned, gonna head uptown

[ (G) Am7 Bm7 Am7 G]