E5
Shoot a squirrel and baby girl don't even know her father
A5
Sent her away on the fifth of may 
E5
To a steamboat in the water
I loved her well but I'm going to hell
And she won't know its fires
A5
When I'm away she'll dine in Maine 
E5
On bloody marys and lobster
The day I die, well by that time
She will be a woman
A5
She won't know me but her love's at sea
E5
With a steamboat captain husband
I can't sleep at night, oh she's wonderin' why
She don't know her father
A5
I tell her she born when the beauty of the sun
E5
Fell into the water


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Well the devil don't know, but I'll be countin' his gold tonight
B5                              A5                 E5
You can't grow old when you're countin' his gold tonight 
(2 times)


E5
When she dies why the wings won't fly her
All the way to Jesus
A5
Her soul will lay and move with the waves
E5
Oh the devil told me all his secrets 
(3 times)