A Pirate Looks At 40 Tab par Jimmy Buffett

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Intro - Fingerpicked G for 8 bars

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Mother, mother ocean, I have heard your call, 
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I wanted to sail upon your waters since I was three feet tall.
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Youve seen it all,    youve seen it all.

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Watched the men who rode you, switch from sails to steam. 
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And in your belly you hold the treasures that few have ever seen. 
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Most of them dreams, most of them dreams.

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Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years too late. 
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The cannons dont thunder, theres nothing to plunder, Im an over forty victim of fate; 
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arriving too late,       arriving too late.