Sea Stories
By Sturgill Simpson
Written by Sturgill Simpson
CD: A Sailor's Guide to Earth (2016)
Tabbed by Larry Mofle
4/17/2016
Capo 3 (Key of F)
D G D
Basically it's just like papaw says, "Keep your mouth shut and you'll be fine"
D A
Just another enlisted egg in the bowl for Uncle Sam's beater
D G D
When you get to Dam Neck, hear a voice in your head saying, "my life's no longer mine"
D G D A D
Have you running with some SAD SOG BMF Sandeaters
D G D
Setting out on them high seas feels just like being born
D A
But that first port call in Thailand feels like a pollywog turning nineteen
D G D
They've got king cobras fighting in boxing rings and all the angels play Connect Four
G D A D
Seems like a sailor's paradise but turns out to be a bad dream
Well now you hit the ground running in Tokyo from Kawasaki to Ebisu
Yokosuka, Yokohama, and Shinjuku, Shibuya, Ropongi and Harajuku
Aw, from Pusan and Ko Chang, Pattaya to Phuket, from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur
Seen damn near the whole damn world from the inside of a bar
Bridge:
G D
I've got sea stories, they're all true
D A
Might seem a little bit far-fetched but why would I lie to you
G D
Memories make forever stains, still got salt running through my veins
G A D
I've got sea stories and my shellback, too
G D
Sometimes Sirens send a ship off course, horizon gets so hazy
D A
Maybe get high, play a little Golden Eye on that old 64
D G
And if you get sick and can't manage the kick and get yourself kicked out the navy
D G
You'll spend the next year trying to score from a futon life raft on the floor
D A D
And the next fifteen trying to figure out what the hell you did that for
D A D
But flying high beats dying for lies in a politician's war
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