🎸 Father Neptune chords by Connie Converse

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
E B7/E (x2)

Verse:
   E       B7/E
When my man goes to sea
  E         B7/E
He steps so high and free
 E         B7/E         E        B7/E
I think I know as I watch him go that he has no need for me
  E B7/E E B7/E
For me

Verse:
  E         B7/E
And when my man comes home
  E        B7/E
And waits a while to roam
 E          B7/E          E        B7/E
I think I see when he smiles at me that he's dreaming of the foam
  E  B7/E E B7/E
The foam

Chorus:
  A7     D
I'm not a pious Christian
 A7      D
I do not go to mass
   G    C   G
But I pray to Father Neptune
  Am       E
To let him safely pass


B7  E            B7/E
I.... sing to the God with the three-pronged rod
    E         A7
And the whiskers wild and free
   E           B7/E
That I've got a man with a beard and tan
   A7       E
And a passion for the sea

Verse:
E          B7/E      E      B7/E
He rides through the storm, and the cold and the warm
    E         A7
And he loves to risk his neck
   E    B7/E     E   B7/E
And I like to know when he goes below
     E   B7/E  E
That it's just below the deck

Chorus:
  A7       D
Oh Neptune, Father Neptune
 A7        D
I tell you fair and true
    G     C    G
That if you should lose my sailor
   Am       E
I'll sing no more to you

B7    E          B7/E
When he's home from sea he is half with me
     E           A7
And he's gone when I close the door
     E            B7/E
And it's still his creed that he has no need
   A7     E
For a wife except onshore

Outro:
 E      B7/E   E     B7/E
I know it's a boat that keeps him afloat
   E         A7
But I like to think it's me
  E           D7add9
And if it were not for this
    C7add9    B7add9    E B7/E E B7/E E
I would sink to the depths of the sea