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