Single-Handed Sailor

Intro: (x2) 0:00
Dm7 | Dm7 | Dm7 | Dm7
C | C | G7 | G7

Verse 1: 0:19
Dm  C
  Two in the morning,
  A#      F
Dry-dock town,
Dm                  C
  The river rolls away
             A# | A#
In the night.
0:29
Dm        C
  Little gypsy moth
      A#        F
She's all tied down,
Dm
  She quiver in the
 C                 A# | F
Wind and the light.

Verse 2: 0:38
Dm             C
  Yeah, and a sailing ship just
 A#            F
Held down in chains,
Dm          C
  From the lazy
             A# | A#
Days of sail.
0:47
Dm            C
  She's just lying there
    A#     F
In silent pain,
Dm
  He lean on the
 C           A# | F
Tourist rail.

Pre-chorus: 0:57
Am
  A mother and her baby
         Dm
And the college of war
A#
  In the concrete
  C
Graves.
1:06
Dm                   C
  You never want to fight
             A#       F
Against the river law.
Gm
  Nobody rules
     A#
The waves.

Chorus: 1:15
                C
Yeah, and on a night when
     A7             Dm
The lazy wind is a-wailing
C A#                      C
    Around the Cutty Sark,
1:24
C      Dm            C
  The single handed sailor
 C7  A# F
Goes   sailing,
Gm                         A#
  Sailing away in the dark.

Instrumental: 1:34
Dm7 | Dm7 | Dm7 | Dm7
C | C | G7 | G7

Verse 3: 1:53
Dm     C
  He's   upon the bridge
        A#        F
On the self same night,
Dm                 C
  The mariner of dry
          A# | A#
Dock land.
2:03
Dm            C
  Two in the morning, but
         A#         F
There is one green light
Dm
  And a man on the
 C            A# | F
Barge of sand.

Pre-chorus: 2:12
Am
  She's a-gonna slip away
   Dm
Below him,
A#
  Away from the things
      C
He's done.
2:21
        Dm            C
But he just shouts, "Hey, man,
  A#                    F
What do you call this thing?"
Gm
  He could have said,
   A#
"Pride of London".

Chorus: 2:30
      C
On a night when
     A7             Dm
The lazy wind is a-wailing
C A#                      C
    Around the Cutty Sark,
2:39
C            Dm            C
  Yeah, the single handed sailor
 C7  A# F
Goes   sailing,
Gm                         A#
  Sailing away in the dark.

Coda: (x12) 2:49
Dm7 | Dm7 | Dm7 | Dm7
C | C | G7 | G7