Privateering Cifras

Privateering by Mark Knopfler from Privateering album
For any questions mail me to fffoma@gmail.com
 
 
Time: 2/4
Key: C Minor
Capo: 3 fret
 
 
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Yon’s my privateer
 
See how trim she lies
 
To every man a lucky hand
 
And every man a prize
 
I live to ride the ocean
     C             G     Am
The mighty world around
                   C
To take a little plunder
        G               Am
And to hear the cannon sound
 
    F               C
To lay with pretty women
                  G    D/F#
To drink Madeira wine
    Am                C
To hear the rollers thunder
       G               Am
On a shore that isn’t mine
 
      Am
Privateering we will go
 
Privateering, yo ho hoho
 
Privateering we will go
 
Yo ho ho, yo ho ho
 
 
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     Am
The people on your man o’ war
 
Are treated worse than scum
 
I’m no flogging captain
 
And by God I’ve sailed with some
 
Come with me to Barbary
        C               G    Am
We’ll ply there up and down
            C
Not quite exactly
        G               Am
In the service of the Crown
    F               C
To lay with pretty women
                  G    D/F#
To drink Madeira wine
    Am                C
To hear the rollers thunder
       G               Am
On a shore that isn’t mine
 
 
      Am
Privateering we will go
 
Privateering, yo ho hoho
 
Privateering we will go
 
Yo ho ho, yo ho ho
 
 
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Look’ee there’s my privateer
 
She’s small but she can sting
 
Licensed to take prizes
 
With a letter from the King
 
I love the streets and taverns
       C             G
Of a pretty foreign town
        Am                   C
Tip my hat to the dark-eyed ladies
       G            Am
As we sally up and down
    F               C
To lay with pretty women
                  G    D/F#
To drink Madeira wine
    Am                C
To hear the rollers thunder
       G               Am
On a shore that isn’t mine
 
 
      Am
Privateering we will go
 
Privateering, yo ho hoho
 
Privateering we will go
 
Yo ho ho, yo ho ho
 
 
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    Am
Britannia needs her privateers
 
Each time she goes to war
 
Death to all her enemies
 
Though prizes matter more
 
Come with me to Barbary
        C               G    Am
We’ll ply there up and down
            C
Not quite exactly
        G               Am
In the service of the Crown
    F               C
To lay with pretty women
                  G    D/F#
To drink Madeira wine
    Am                C
To hear the rollers thunder
       G               Am
On a shore that isn’t mine
 
 
      Am
Privateering we will go
 
Privateering, yo ho hoho
 
Privateering we will go
 
Yo ho ho, yo ho ho
 
 
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