A Pirate Looks At Forty Tab

Jack Johnson - A Pirate Looks at Forty
 
Standard Tuning
 
h=hammer
|=first beat
`=other beats
 
     G                              C
     |   ‘   ‘   ‘                  |   ‘   ‘   ‘
e |------3-------3----|        e |------0-------0----|
B |------3-------3----|        B |------1-------1----|
G |----0---0---0---0--| Repeat G |----0---0---0---0--| Repeat
D |----------0--------|   4x   D |----------2--------|   3x
A |-------------------|        A |--3----------------|
E |--3----------------|        E |-------------------|
 
Repeat ‘G’ pattern once more
 
     Am                 D7
     |   ‘   ‘     ‘    |   ‘   ‘   ‘
e |------0---------0--------2-------2----|
B |------1---------1--------1-------1----|
G |----2---2-----2---2----2---2---2---2--|
D |----------0h2--------0-------0--------|
A |--0-----------------------------------|
E |--------------------------------------|
 
Repeat ‘G’ Pattern Twice
 
 
G C G Am D7 G
 
G
Mother, Mother Ocean, I have heard you call
C                                                      G
I’ve wanted to sail upon your waters since I was three feet tall
                    Am    D7
‘Cuz you’ve seen it all,
               G
You’ve seen it all
 
 
G
Watch the men who rode you, switch from sails to steam
C
And in your belly you hold the treasures
              G
Few have ever seen
                 Am    D7
Most of them are dreams
                     G
Yes most of them are dreams
 
 
G
Yes, I am a pirate, a few hundred years too late
C
Cannons don't thunder there's nothin' to plunder
                             G
I'm an under forty victim of fate
             Am    D7           G
Arriving too late, arriving too late
 
 
G
But I've done a bit of smugglin', I've run my share of grass
C                                                       G
Made enough money to buy Miami, but I pissed it away so fast
                    Am  D7
It's never meant to last
                    G
It's never meant to last
 
 
G
I have been drunk now for over two weeks,
 
Passed out and I rallied and I sprung a few leaks
C
But I've got to stop wishin', got to go fishin'
                        G
I'm down to rock bottom again.
           Am      D7
Just a few friends
           G
Just a few friends
 
 
G
I go for younger women, lived with several a while
C
Though I ran them away, they'd come back one day
                      G
Still could manage to smile
             Am     D7           G
Just takes a while, just takes a while
 
 
G
Mother, mother ocean, after all the years I've found
C                                                      G
My occupational hazard being my occupation's just not around
                 Am      D7          G
I feel like I've drowned, gonna head uptown
                 Am      D7          G
I feel like I've drowned, gonna head uptown
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