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