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