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