The Final Voyage Of The Wailer's Essex Chords
by Rusty Cage
The Final Voyage Of The Wailer's Essex by Rusty Cage is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of Ab with a capo on the 1st fret. It uses the chords C, Em, Am, F, G, Dm, G7, E7, C7 and F7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
C Em Am C
I done my level best, to whomever's concerned
C Em F G
For children of wailer's, we all take a turn
Dm G C Am
Now we lay in our oars boat, us six men at sea
Dm G C Am
And travel for home with rations for three
Dm G C Am
Two ounces fresh water and hardtack a day
F G C
But we'll see Nantucket again
C Em Am C
Forty days and forty nights, we followed the wind
C Em F G
In the southern Pacific, many miles from land
Dm G C Am
The first mate of Essex, and few crew with me
Dm G C Am
Our captain George Pollard is lost at the sea
Dm G C Am
And I look to the East and see nothing but blue
F G C
So what can us starving men do?
C G F G
But sing, sing, we're on our way home
C G F G7
Across the Pacific, and through the unknown
C E7 Am
With God as our shepherd then no harm shall pass
F G C
We'll be in Nantucket at last
C7 F F7
But oh, how this skin of blistered leather pulls tight on our skulls
C E7 Am
As rations all dwindle away
C7 F F7
And oh, how our dreams every night, of our stomachs so full
Dm G C Am
But awake to find water to last two more days
Dm G C Am
Our spirits all broken, our minds are all crazed
Dm G C Em Am
And oh, how I'd kill for just one more good meal
F G C
But home's a little farther away
C G F G
But sing, sing, we're on our way home
C G F G7
Across the Pacific, and through the unknown
C E7 Am
With God as our shepherd then no harm shall pass
F G C
We'll be in Nantucket at last
C7 F F7
But oh, when I look at my crewman, I see them looking back at me
C E7 Am
Humanity gone from their eyes
C7 F F7
Once we were men of our god, and brothers at sea
Dm G C Am
Those times weren't so long ago, but how quick they pass
Dm G C Am
Was once death a stranger, now approaching us fast
Dm G C Am
But we are Nantucket, the proud and the strong
F G C
For Nantucket, we must travel on
C7 F F7
But oh, how these hunger pangs drive all the thoughts in my brain
C E7 Am
And body dries up in the sun
C7 F F7
Oh, cause it's meat and fresh water that the six of us crave
Dm G C Am
So six bits of paper are tossed in the cap
Dm G C Am
And six men reach in and each pull out a scrap
Dm G C Am
And one man of six, with the unlucky draw
F G C
Is one man to help feed us all