(capo 4th fret) 
 
 
INtro - A5 - C5 - A5 - C5 - A5 - C5 - G5 - A5 
 
 
(verse 1) 
A5                             C5 
If the waves roll rough as in days before 
          G5                A5 
Still we put our boats to sea 
                               C5 
The take has been tough, we're counting on more 
   G5                A5 - C5 - A5 - G5 - A5 
To make the season pay 
 
(verse 2) 

It was back in '83 my brothers and me 

laid our poor father in his grave 

Even though he's dead and gone, his voice lives on 

In the hiss and pull of the waves 


            C5         G5 
We'll carry on, carry on 
 F5                       C5              G5 
sing these words through all the damage done 
    F5                      C5           F5 
The old salt would say, I my father's son 
      A5          C5 
Come hell or high water 
G5           A5   
We'll carry on,  
 
(verse 3) 

In smokey gray rooms, beneath bare lightbulbs,  

The accusations fly 

What the hell do they want, they've taken enough 

From this way of life once mine 
 
Chorus and 
A5 - C5 - C5 - A5 - C5 - C5 - A5 - C5 - C5 - G5 - A5 
 

Verse4 

It's a merciless scheme, not a fisherman's dream 

The way the tide has turned 

For not long before, by these restless shores 

A man could his living earn 
 
Chorus 
 
ending 
F5            C5 
Hell or high water  
F5            C5 
Hell or high water  
F5            C5 
Hell or high water  
G5          A5 - C5 - C5 - A5 - G5 - A5 
we'll carry