A E B C#m E
A B A E A E
A E B C#m E B E
A E
Now when I was a young man
A E
We lived near the sea strand
A E B
And me folks kept a tavern called the Admiral's Head
A E
And old salts by the fireside
A E
Would tell of the seas wide
A B E
The far foreign shores and the lives that they led
A B C#m
And it's up and away in the morning
E B
O' the tears me poor mother has cried
A E
But the sea it had called me
A E
And you may say I'm barmy
A E B
But I went to her just like a bride
C#m E B E
And it's up and away in the morning
A E
Well, I walked into Bristol
A E
With cutlass and pistol
A E B
A new bo'sun's whistle and a swaggerin' stride
A E
And without too much censure
A E
I soon was indentured
A B E
And embarked for adventure on a bright morning's tide
C#m E B C#m
And it's up and away in the morning
E A B
With the wind to our backs we will sail
A E
And the ship may well take ya
A E
From here to Jamaica
A E B
Where they serve up the rum by the pail
C#m E B E
And it's up and away in the morning
A E
After two months hard toil
A E
We docked in Port Royal
A E B
Our virtues to spoil or at least to curtail
A E
But the trouble with the boisterous
A E
Sailors who roister's
A E B E
Their choice is to run or to end up in jail
C#m A B E
And it's up and away in the morning
A B
And the salt spray tastes finer than wine
A E
Dawn on the horizon
A E
And the size of the prize
A E B
For the taking of a ship of the line
C#m E B E
And it's up and away in the morning
A E A E
Now some say the sea is a sickness but we
A E B
Feel the thickness of wits lest we're shortening sail
A E
And we see the sea glint
A E
The focsle and bowsprit
A E B E
And our course is well plotted and runs fore the gale
A B C#m
And it's up and away in the morning
E B
And though we may never come home
A E
We'll think of it often
A E A
'Till the day that our lead-weighted coffins
E B
Get tossed in the foam
C#m E B E
And it's up and away in the morning
C#m E B E
And it's up and away in the morning
A B E
With the wind to our backs we will sail
And the ship may well take ya
A E
From here to Jamaica
A E
Where the storms and the waves
A E
They will toss ya and shake ya
B E
And you'll do desperate deeds
A E
For which God might forsake ya
A E B
But there's nowhere that we'd rather be
C#m E B E
And it's up and away in the morning