...FARE AWAY... by The Main Street Singers ---------------........................... Intro: G C C/B D G Verse 1: G C G Sun breaks over the sprits'l yard. C C/B A/C# D Jib sheet's haulin' to lee-ward hard. G C G Crosstree's hummin' a mornin' hymn. C C/B D G D G I'm the cabin boy, call me Jim. (His name's Jim)
Chorus 1: G Fare away, fare away under main topsail C C/B D C/G G To the fur-be-low of the wily wha...le. Verse 2: G C G Captain's stalking the quarter-deck. C C/B A/C# D Tells the tail of his first ship-wreck. G C G Castaway with a case of rum. C C/B D G D G Hoped that rescue would never come (Never come). Chorus 2: G Fare away, fare away under main topsail C C/B D G To the fur-be-low of the wily whale. C C/B D To the fur-be-low of the wi-ly, wi-ly Bridge: (Penny Whistle) G Em D#F# G C C/B A/C# D, G Em D#F# G C C/B C C/B Am Em D/F# G C C/B Am E (Faster): C A/C# D G (Accordian joins) Verse 3: G C G First mate Adam's a hardened man. C C/B A/C# D Says the captain's a charla-tan. G C G Don't know tackle from futtock plates. C C/B D G He'll sail us into the Pear...ly Gates. Chorus 3: G Fare away, fare away under main topsail C C/B D C/G G To the fur-be-low of the wily wha...le. Verse 4: G C G I been sailin' these seven seas C C/B A/C# D Since I's nigh high to a mermaid's knees. G C G Come next April I'm sixty-three. C C/B C C/B I can't ad-vance! (I like short pants!) C C/B D G Safe in the cabin on the o-pen sea. Chorus 4: G Fare away, fare away under main topsail C C/B D G To the fur-be-low of the wily whale. C C/B D C/G G To the fur-be-low of the wi-ly, wi-ly wha...le. CHORD DIAGRAMS: --------------- G C C/B D A/C# Em D/F# Am E EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE 320003 x32010 x2001x xx0232 x42220 022000 200230 x02210 022100 Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2005 (clumsyband@hotmail.com)