Enjoy!

Wave over Wave

My names Able Rodgers, a shareman am I
On a three masted schooner from Twillingate Isle
I’ve been the world over, north, south, east and west
But the middle of knowheres where I likes it best

Chorus
Where it’s wave over wave. Sea over bow
I’m as happy a man as the sea will allow
There’s no other life for a sailor like me
Then to sail the salt sea boy to sail the sea
There’s no other life but to sail the salt sea

Well I leave my wife lonely ten months of the year
For she built me a home and raised my children there
She never come out to bid farewell to me
Or can why a sailor must sail the salt sea

Chorus

Ah the work is hard and the hours are long
But my spirit is willing my back it is strong
And when the works over the whisky will pour
We’ll dance with the girls upon some foreign shore

I’ve sailed the world over for decades or more
And oft times I wondered what I do it for
I don’t know the answer it’s pleasure and pain
But with life to live over I’d do it again

Chorus

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How Did We Get From Saying I Love You – Great Big Sea

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Tabbed by: BigDezDez
Email: bigdezdez@hotmail.com

Chords Used:

e|--3----1---3----3----0---|
B|--1----1---1----0----1---|
G|--2----2---0----0----2---|
D|--3----3---2----0----2---|
A|--3----3---3----2----0---|
E|--1----1--------3--------|

Tips:
When picking the Fadd9, I just use my thumb on the 6th string and my index, middle &
pinky fingers for the
other 3 notes.
This also sounds pretty good when strummed – or alternating between picking (intro
pattern) and strumming.
If strumming the verse you can get away with just a regular F (133211)
Obviously the chords are relative to the capo (the album recording is in G)

Capo II

Intro:

e|-----3------------3------------3-----------3--------|
B|-1-----1--1---1-----1--1---0-----0--0---1----1--1---|
G|---2----2-------0----0-------0----0-------0---0-----|
D|----------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------3-------------------------3-----------|
E|-1-------------------------3------------------------|

e|-----3------------3------------3-----------3--------|
B|-1-----1--1---1-----1--1---0-----0--0---1----1--1---|
G|---2----2-------0----0-------0----0-------0---0-----|
D|----------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------3-------------------------3-----------|
E|-1-------------------------3------------------------|

“It’s a cold day for September”, was all I thought to say
When I saw you on the street the other day.
I knew something changed between us, all the talk we made was small
But what do you say to someone when they’ve heard you say it all?
It’s an awkward conversation in a most peculiar way

F C G N.C
How did we get from saying “I love you” to “I’ll see you around someday”?

REPEAT INTRO

It seemed like only days ago we had so much to say
Did we take it all for granted, did it all get thrown away?
“It calls for rain this afternoon”, you finally replied
And there was such a stuttering silence that I felt my mouth go dry
So we’ll just talk about the weather ‘cause there’s not much more to say

How did we get from saying “I love you” to “I’ll see you around someday”?
F C G N.C
How did we get from saying “I love you” to “I’ll see you around someday”?

REPEAT INTRO

Has all the ice been broken? All our surfaces been scratched
Have all the words been spoken? Have we finally met our match?
‘cause It’s an awkward conversation in a most peculiar way

How did we get from saying “I love you” to “I’ll see you around someday”?
How did we get from saying “I love you” to “I’ll see you around someday”?
F C G N.C
How did we get from saying “I love you” to “I’ll see you around someday”?

REPEAT INTRO x 2

“You can spend your life, your jolly life
Just sailing on the sea.
You can search the world for pretty girls
Til your eyes are weak and dim,
But don’t go searching for a mermaid, son
If you don’t know how to swim”

Chorus
‘Cause her hair was green as seaweed
Her skin was blue and pale
Her face it was a work of art,
I loved that girl with all my heart
But I only liked the upper part
I did not like the tail

I signed onto a sailing ship
My very first day at sea
I seen the Mermaid in the waves,
Reaching out to me
“Come live with me in the sea said she,
Down on the ocean floor
And I’ll show you a million wonderous things
You’ve never seen before
So over I jumped and she pulled me down,
Down to her seaweed bed

On a pillow made of a tortoise-shell
She placed beneath my head
She fed me shrimp and caviar
Upon a silver dish
From her head to her waist it was just my taste
But the rest of her was a fish

Chorus
‘Cause her hair was green as seaweed
Her skin was blue and pale
Her face it was a work of art,
I loved that girl with all my heart
But I only liked the upper part
I did not like the tail

But then one day, she swam away
So I sang to the clams and the whales
“Oh, how I miss her seaweed hair
And the silver shine of her scales
But then her sister, she swam by
And set my heart awhirl
Cause her upper part was an ugly fish
But her bottom part was a girl

Chorus
Yes her hair was green as seaweed
Her skin was blue and pale
Her legs they are a work of art,
I loved that girl with all my heart
And I don’t give a damn about the upper part
Cause that’s how I get my tail.

-Standard Tuning-

-Capo 2-

[Verse 1]
In every life, there lives a melody
In every heart, there hides a knife
Every soul shall seek its harmony
While every fist shall find a fight

And we live this life
Between wrong and right
And I feel so alive
Toniii-iiight

[Verse 2]
Every dawn, a simple symphony
In every song, a broken line
In every day, a different destiny
In every love, there lives a lie

[Verse 3]
And every star, with night falls back to life
And every fire will lose its light
Every tear, you ever shed will dry
While every smile
Will burn on
So
Bright

Protest Song by Great Big Sea

Capo on 4

CHORUS:

Does the World really need another protest song?
Sing about everything going wrong
The revolution has come and gone
Does the world really need another protest song?

VERSE:

I want to [D/F#]sing for singing’s own sake,
I want to carry a tune.
No message to [D/F#]give, no message to take,
A melody will do.

(chords for the rest of the song continue as above ….)

Does the World really need another protest song?
Sing about everything going wrong
The revolution has come and gone
Does the world really need another protest song?

I want a rhythm that moves my feet
wild as the river runs.
I’ve never wanted to march to the beat
Of somebody else’s drum.

Does the World really need another protest song?
Sing about everything going wrong
The revolution has come and gone
Does the world really need another protest song?

I’ll tell you a story with this old guitar,
Just three chords and the truth.
Every good story is laced up with lies,
And the best of those lies are half truth

Does the World really need another protest song?
Sing about everything going wrong
The revolution has come and gone
Does the world really need another protest song?

Does the World really need another protest song?
Sing about everything going wrong
The revolution has come and gone
Does the world really need another protest song?
Does the World really need another protest song?

More lyrics: http://www.lyricsmania.com/protest_song_lyrics_great_big_sea.html
All about Great Big+Sea: http://www.musictory.com/music/Great+Big+Sea

“Born To Believe” (Doyle/McCann)
Released on “XX”(2012)

|G…|

The world is your oyster, so get yourself to sea
Time is of the essence, so try to keep some free
I’m a child and I’m a father, and I love my family
There’s no place underneath the stars that I would rather be

|G…|

We are the difference between the present and the past
We are the distance between the first and last
My life will be unlimited, and full shall be my glass
I am ready, I am willing and I’m able for the task!
CHORUS:

I was born to believe…I was born to believe
we are one, we are strong, we can sing a different song
let the right shine through the wrong,
we’re all here were we belong…

|G C D |

“No!”

I’m not here to talk about freedom, I’m not here to talk about love!
I’m just happy I’m still breathing, beneath the sky above
You can lead your life of reason, waiting for the perfect rhyme
but while you keep on wishing for the things you’re missing
the clock keeps ticking and it’s right on time and…

CHORUS

Oh-oh-way-oh…CHORUS X2

|G C D| to fade.