Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

Verse 1

Sun breaks over the sprits'l yard,

Jib sheet's haulin' to lee-ward hard.

Crosstree's hummin' a mornin' hymn,

I'm the cabin boy; call me Jim. (His name's Jim).

Chorus 1

Fare away, fare away, under main topsail,

To the fur-be-low of the wily wha...le.

Verse 2

Captain's stalking the quarter-deck,

Tells the tail of his first ship-wreck.

Castaway with a case of rum,

Hoped that rescue would never come.

(Never come).

Chorus 2

Fare away, fare away, under main topsail,

To the fur-be-low of the wily whale.

To the fur-be-low of the wi-ly, wi-ly...

Interlude

(Penny Whistle)

(Faster):

Verse 3

First mate Adam's a hardened man,

Says the captain's a charla-tan.

Don't know tackle from futtock plates,

He'll sail us into the Pear...ly Gates.

Chorus 3

Fare away, fare away, under main topsail,

To the fur-be-low of the wily wha...le.

Verse 4

I been sailin' these seven seas,

Since I's nigh high to a mermaid's knees.

Come next April I'm sixty-three,

I can't ad-vance! (I like short pants!)

Safe in the cabin on the o-pen sea.

Chorus 4

Fare away, fare away, under main topsail,

To the fur-be-low of the wily whale.

To the fur-be-low of the wily, wi-ly wha...le.

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