[Intro]
Let`s take a drink for the ocean
and to all of you lassies we bid you farewell.
D G D A D
[Verse 1]
D G D
I am a doggie rover with a price upon my head
G D Bm A
so I signed aboard a clipper to see the world instead
D G D
With the stormy seas around me and an albatross on high
G D A D
I sailed from the prisons holes of London
G D Bm A
I've worked to a sweat in the rain and sun and snow
G D A
from the cold coast of Greenland to warm shores of Mexico
[Chorus]
D G D
Lets take a drink for the ocean
G D Bm A
and one for the skipper of The Great America
D G D
Whisky galore for the ocean
G D A D
and to all of you lassies we bid you farewell
G D A D
[Verse 2]
D G D
Many are the years now I have spent at sea
G D Bm A
and plenty are the times I've cursed the life I've lived
D G D
standing on a ten hour watch in the stormy barren seas
G D A D
I've longed for the prison holes of London
G D Bm A
I've worked to a sweat in the rain and sun and snow
G D A
from the cold coast of Greenland to warm shores of Mexico
[Chorus]
D G D
Lets take a drink for the ocean
G D Bm A
and one for the skipper of The Great America
D G D
Whisky galore for the ocean
G D A G
and to all of you lassies we bid you farewell
D Bm A G D G D A
[Verse 3]
D G D
While off the coast of Frisko my destiny I did meet
G D Bm A
when a great big bloody wave did knock me of me feet
D G D
although I go to meet my death I'm happy that I'll die
G D A D
away from the prison holes of London
G D Bm A
I've worked to a sweat in the rain and sun and snow
G D A
from the cold coast of Greenland to warm shores of Mexico
[Chorus]
D G D
Lets take a drink for the ocean
G D Bm A
and one for the skipper of The Great America
D G D
Whisky galore for the ocean
G D A D
and to all of you lassies we bid you farewell
D G D
Lets take a drink for the ocean
G D Bm A
and one for the skipper of The Great America
D G D
Whisky galore for the ocean
G D A D
and to all of you lassies we bid you farewell
D G D
Lets take a drink for the ocean
G D Bm A
and one for the skipper of The Great America
D G D
Whisky galore for the ocean
G D A D
and to all of you lassies we bid you farewell