• Song:

    Privateering

  • Artist:

    Mark Knopfler

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An easy take on "Privateering". Probably not 100 % accurate but works fine. Maybe 
there's another bass note somewhere.

Capo 3

AmYon's (x02210@1)my privateer see how trim she lies

To every man a lucky hand and to every man a prize
                                 C (x32010@1)        GI (320003@1)live to ride the ocean the mighty world around
 Am (x02210@1)                             G (320003@1)            AmTo (x02210@1)take a little plunder and to hear the cannon sound

F (133211@1)             CTo (x32010@1)lay with pretty women
                 G (320003@1)      Dsus2to (xx0230@1)drink Madeira wine
 Am (x02210@1)                              G (320003@1)             Amto (x02210@1)hear the roller's thunder on a shore that isn't mine

AmPrivateering, (x02210@1)we will go
Privateering, Yoh! oh! ho!
Privateering, we will go
Yeah! oh! oh! ho!

AmThe (x02210@1)people on your man o'war are treated worse than scum

I'm no flogging Captain my God I've sailed with some
                               C (x32010@1)              GCome (320003@1)with me to Barbary we'll ply there up and down
 Am (x02210@1)                             G (320003@1)     AmNot (x02210@1)quite exactly in the service of the Crown

F (133211@1)             CTo (x32010@1)lay with pretty women
                 G (320003@1)      Dsus2to (xx0230@1)drink Madeira wine
 Am (x02210@1)                              G (320003@1)             Amto (x02210@1)hear the roller's thunder on a shore that isn't mine

AmPrivateering, (x02210@1)we will go
Privateering, Yoh! oh! ho!
Privateering, we will go
Yeah! oh! oh! ho!

AmLook (x02210@1)here there's my privateer she's small but she can sting

Licensed to take prizes with a letter from the King
                                      C (x32010@1)           GI (320003@1)love the streets and taverns of a pretty foreign town
 Am (x02210@1)                                     G (320003@1)         Amtip (x02210@1)my hat to the dark eyed ladies as we sally up and down

F (133211@1)             CTo (x32010@1)lay with pretty women
                 G (320003@1)      Dsus2to (xx0230@1)drink Madeira wine
 Am (x02210@1)                              G (320003@1)             Amto (x02210@1)hear the roller's thunder on a shore that isn't mine

AmPrivateering, (x02210@1)we will go
Privateering, Yoh! oh! ho!
Privateering, we will go
Yeah! oh! oh! ho!

AmBritannia (x02210@1)needs her privateers each time she goes to war

Death to all her enemies no prizes matter more
                               C (x32010@1)              GCome (320003@1)with me to Barbary we'll ply there up and down
 Am (x02210@1)                             G (320003@1)     AmNot (x02210@1)quite exactly in the service of the Crown

F (133211@1)             CTo (x32010@1)lay with pretty women
                 G (320003@1)      Dsus2to (xx0230@1)drink Madeira wine
 Am (x02210@1)                              G (320003@1)             Amto (x02210@1)hear the roller's thunder on a shore that isn't mine

AmPrivateering, (x02210@1)we will go
Privateering, Yoh! oh! ho!
Privateering, we will go
Yeah! oh! oh! ho!
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