Wave Over Wave Chords

"Wave Over Wave"(Jim Payne)
 As recorded by GBS on "Up"(1995)
 
  Use a capo on the first fret for studio version.
  Most live versions no capo. Em can be Em7 or even
  just G.(DADGAD,DADGBD or similar celtic-ish tuning optional)
 
[Intro]
 
  | Em  A |  X4
 
[Verse]
          G           D         G          D
  Oh, me name's Abel Rogers, a shareman am I,
         G             D           Em         Asus4
  on a three-masted schooner from Twillingate Isle.
        G              D             G               D
  I've been the world over, north, south, east, and west,
           G         D              Em         Asus4
  but the middle of nowhere's where I likes it best.
 
[Chorus]
              G         D     G        D
  where it's wave over wave, sea over bow,
          G       D         Em          A
  I'm as happy a man as the sea will allow.
          G         D          G          D
  There's no other life for a sailor like me,
           G             D             Em       A
  than to sail the salt sea, boys, to sail the sea,
          G                     Asus4         D
  there's no other life but to sail the salt sea. 
 
  |D G D | G D G A D |
 
[Verse]
          G             D          G             D
  well,I leave my wife lonely ten months of the year,
           G          D              Em           Asus4
  for she built me a home and raised my children dear.
       G          D          G          D
  she never come out to bid farewell to me,
      G         D           Em            Asus4
  or ken why a sailor must sail the salt sea. 
 
[Chorus]
              G         D     G        D
  where it's wave over wave, sea over bow,
          G       D         Em          A
  I'm as happy a man as the sea will allow.
          G         D          G          D
  There's no other life for a sailor like me,
           G             D             Em       A
  than to sail the salt sea, boys, to sail the sea,
          G                     Asus4         D
  there's no other life but to sail the salt sea.  
 
[Verse]
          G          D            G         D
  Ah the work it is hard and the hours are long,
           G        D          Em            Asus4
  but my spirit is willing, my back it is strong.
       G              D          G           D
  and when the work's over the whiskey will pour,
         G              D          Em            Asus4
  We'll dance with the girls upon some foreign shore. 
 
  | Em A | X4
 
[Verse]
        G                 D        G          D
  I've sailed the world over,four decades or more,
      G            D          Em       Asus4
  and oft times I wonder what I do it for.
     G              D            G           D
  I don't know the answer it's pleasure and pain,
            G            D       Em      Asus4
  but with life to live over I'd do it again. 
 
[Chorus]
               G         D    G        D
  where it's wave over wave, sea over bow,
          G       D         Em          A
  I'm as happy a man as the sea will allow.
          G         D          G       D
  There's no other life for a sailor like me,
           G             D             Em       A
  than to sail the salt sea, boys, to sail the sea,
          G                     Asus4         D
  there's no other life but to sail the salt sea. 
 
              G         D     G        D
  where it's wave over wave, sea over bow,
          G       D         Em          A
  I'm as happy a man as the sea will allow.
          G         D          G       D
  There's no other life for a sailor like me,
           G             D             Em       A
  than to sail the salt sea, boys, to sail the sea,
          G                     Asus4         D
  there's no other life but to sail the salt sea. 
 
  | D G D | D G A D |
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