INTRO: C5 VERSE: C5 A5 G5 F5 Well it's just my luck to have the watch, with nothing left to do C5 F5 A5 G5 But to watch the deadly waters glide as we roll north to the 'Soo', C5 A5 E5 F5 Wonder when they'll turn again and pitch us to the rail C5 G5 F5 Whirl off one more youngster in the gale. C5 A5 G5 F5 The kid was so damned eager. It was all so big and new. C5 F5 A5 G5 Never had to tell him twice, or find him work to do. C5 A5 E5 F5 And evenings on the mess deck he was always first to sing, C5 G5 C5 Show us pictures of the girl he'd wed in spring. CHORUS G5 F5 C5 But I told that kid a hundred times "Don't take the Lakes for granted. F5 C5 A5 G5 They go from calm to a hundred knots so fast they seem enchanted." C5 D5 E5 F5 But tonight a red-eyed Wiarton girl lies staring at the wall, A5 G5 F5 And her lover's gone into a white squall. C5 A5 G5 F5 It's a thing that us oldtimers know. In a sultry summer calm C5 F5 A5 G5 There comes a blow from nowhere, and it goes off like a bomb. C5 A5 E5 F5 And a fifteen thousand tonner can be thrown upon her beam C5 G5 F5 While the gale takes all before it with a scream. C5 A5 G5 F5 The kid was on the hatches, lying staring at the sky. C5 F5 A5 G5 From where I stood I swear I could see tears fall from his eyes. C5 A5 E5 F5 So I hadn't the heart to tell him that he should be on a line, C5 G5 C5 Even on a night so warm and fine. REPEAT CHORUS C5 A5 G5 F5 And I could feel her keeling over with the fury of the blow. C5 F5 A5 G5 And I watched the rail go under then, so terrible and slow. C5 A5 E5 F5 Then, like some great dog she shook herself and roared upright again. C5 G5 C5 Far overside, I heard him call my name. FINAL CHORUS (end final chorus with C5 instead of F5 )
