The Final Voyage Of The Wailers Essex Uke tab by Rusty Cage

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I done my level best, to whomever's concerned 
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For children of wailer's, we all take a turn 
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Now we lay in our oars boat, us six men at sea
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And travel for home with rations for three 
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Two ounces fresh water and hardtack a day 
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But we'll see Nantucket again

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Forty days and forty nights, we followed the wind 
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In the southern Pacific, many miles from land
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The first mate of Essex, and few crew with me 
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Our captain George Pollard is lost at the sea 
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And I look to the East and see nothing but blue                               F                 G         C                                                        
So what can us starving men do?

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But sing, sing, we're on our way home 
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Across the Pacific, and through the unknown 
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With God as our shepherd then no harm shall pass 
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We'll be in Nantucket at last   

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But oh, how this skin of blistered leather pulls tight on our skulls 
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As rations all dwindle away 
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And oh, how our dreams every night, of our stomachs so full 
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But awake to find water to last two more days 
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Our spirits all broken, our minds are all crazed 
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And oh, how I'd kill for just one more good meal 
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But home's a little farther away

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But sing, sing, we're on our way home 
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Across the Pacific, and through the unknown 
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With God as our shepherd then no harm shall pass 
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We'll be in Nantucket at last

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But oh, when I look at my crewman, I see them looking back at me 
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Humanity gone from their eyes 
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Once we were men of our god, and brothers at sea 
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Those times weren't so long ago, but how quick they pass 
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Was once death a stranger, now approaching us fast 
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But we are Nantucket, the proud and the strong 
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For Nantucket, we must travel on

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But oh, how these hunger pangs drive all the thoughts in my brain 
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And body dries up in the sun 
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Oh, cause it's meat and fresh water that the six of us crave 
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So six bits of paper are tossed in the cap 
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And six men reach in and each pull out a scrap 
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And one man of six, with the unlucky draw 
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Is one man to help feed us all