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Capo: 1
Tempo: 140
Time Signature: 3/4


Intro(chords in round brackets isn't playing):


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      A5
They had a last supper
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The day of the Beaching
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She's a dead ship sailing
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Skeleton Crew
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The galley is empty
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The stove pots are cooling
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With what's left of the stew


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The time is approaching
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The captain moves over
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The hangman steps in
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To do what he's paid for
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With the wind down the tide
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She goes proud ahead steaming
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And he drives her hard into the shore


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So far from the Clyde
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Together we ride
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We did ride


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As if to a wave
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From her bows to her rudder
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Bravely she rises to meet with the land
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Under their feet they all feel her keel shatter
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The shallow see washes their hands


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Later the captain
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Shakes hands with the hangman
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And climbs slowly down
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To the oily wet ground
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Goes 'bout to the car that has come here to take him
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To the graveyard and back to the town


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So far from the Clyde
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Together we ride
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We did ride


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      A5
They pull out her cables
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And hack off her hatches
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Too poor to be wasteful with pity or time
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They swarm on her carcass with torches and axes
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Like a whale on the bloody shoreline


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Stripped of her pillars
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Her stays and her stantions
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When there's only her bones on the wet poison land
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Steel ropes will drag her with winches and engines
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'Til it's only a stain on the sand


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So far from the Clyde
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Together we ride
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We did ride

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So far from the Clyde
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Together we ride
        F5    F5
We did ride


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