Verse
Em
Come all you hearty shellbacks,
Bm
And listen to me tale,
C G
Of most majestic worthiness
D Bm
That ever defied a gale;
Em
The greatest vessel of her kind
Bm
That ever a man did see,
C G
She was the mighty clipper ship,
Bm Em
The Sovereign of the Seas.
[Verse 2]
Em
It’s Boston eighteen fifty-two,
Bm
The yards of Donald McKay,
C G
He built the biggest clipper ship
D Bm
To ever launch down the ways;
Em
His reputation on the line,
Bm
His money ventured too;
C G
But he would laugh the last,
Bm Em
He’d show them he was true.
[Chorus]
Em Bm
She crossed the line and doubled the Horn,
D G
She lived to chase a breeze;
Am Bm
She was the mighty clipper ship
C D Em
The Sovereign of the Seas.
[Verse 3]
Em
Her frame of seasoned white oak,
Bm
Her lines were sharp and long,
C G
Her backbone, knees and keelson,
D Bm
She was so stout and strong;
Em
Two hundred sixty-five feet
Bm
She reached from stem to stern,
C G
Twelve thousand yards of canvas
Bm Em
All for the wind did yearn.
[Verse 4]
Em
With Neptune ‘neath the bowsprit,
Bm
She cut the waves so fine,
C G
She swept into New York me boys
D Bm
To work for the Swallowtail line;
Em
No ship to date had stowed so much
Bm
Down in the hold,
C G
Three thousand tons of goods below
Bm Em
Took thirty days to load.
[Chorus]
Em Bm
She crossed the line and doubled the Horn,
D G
She lived to chase a breeze;
Am Bm
She was the mighty clipper ship
C D Em
The Sovereign of the Seas.
[Verse 5]
Em
The water-gazers all along
Bm
The battery did stare,
C G
As she filled her sails to windward
D Bm
In the sunlight’s golden glare;
Em
Then outward bound for ‘Frisco
Bm
And the screaming westerlies,
C G
Across the line and round the Horn
Bm Em
Through the Roaring Forties.
[Verse 6]
Em
The gale took half the rigging,
Bm
We’ll fix it underway,
C G
We’ll weather any sea
D Bm
The skipper did boldly say;
Em
Don’t mind the boarding combers,
Bm
As the solid green she ships,
C G
We’ll throw up some more canvas
Bm Em
Then we’ll punch her through the rips.
[Chorus]
Em Bm
She crossed the line and doubled the Horn,
D G
She lived to chase a breeze;
Am Bm
She was the mighty clipper ship
C D Em
The Sovereign of the Seas.
[Instrumental]
Em Bm
D G
Am Bm
C D Em
Em Bm
D G
Am Bm
C D Em
[Verse 7]
Em
Sailing into ‘Frisco Bay,
Bm
B hundred three days out,
C G
The crowds along the waterfront
D Bm
They shouted and danced about;
Em
Payday brought a bonus
Bm
For all the men on board,
C G
B hundred thousand for the ship
Bm Em
That voyages reward.
[Verse 8]
Em
Then to the Sandwich Isles
Bm
For a load of oil and bone,
C G
Eight thousand barrels of whale oil
D Bm
First clipper to bring it home;
Em
Eighty-two days later
Bm
B record to New York,
C G
She earned her keep for Donald McKay
Bm Em
Sailing from port to port.
[Chorus]
Em Bm
She crossed the line and doubled the Horn,
D G
She lived to chase a breeze;
Am Bm
She was the mighty clipper ship
C D Em
The Sovereign of the Seas.
[Verse 9]
Em
Leaving records in her wake
Bm
And cargo round the world,
C G
B ship ahead of her time
D Bm
With all her sails unfurled;
Em
From Bombay to Ampoa,
Bm
London to Shanghai,
C G
She flew across the waters
Bm Em
The world of sea and sky.
[Verse 10]
Em
But under heavy canvas,
Bm
She foundered in a gale,
C G
She wrecked upon the Pyramid shoals
D Bm
And none to tell the tale,
Em
‘Twas but her seventh summer,
Bm
Cut short her glorious reign,
C G
But those who burn the brightest
Bm Em
Oft flash the briefest flame.
[Chorus]
Em Bm
She crossed the line and doubled the Horn,
D G
She lived to chase a breeze;
Am Bm
She was the mighty clipper ship
C D Em
The Sovereign of the Seas.
[Chorus]
Em Bm
She crossed the line and doubled the Horn,
D G
She lived to chase a breeze;
Am Bm
She was the mighty clipper ship
C D Em
The Sovereign of the Seas.
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