Watching The Ships Roll In Chords
by The Kooks
Watching The Ships Roll In by The Kooks is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, E7, Am, Am7, F and G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
C E7 Am Am7 F G
E|-------------------1--3---
B|--1---1---1---1----1--3---
G|----------2---2----2------
D|--2---2---2---2----3------
A|--3---2------------3--2---
E|--------------3----1--3---
Intro 2x: Am Am7 F
Am Am7 F
Watching the ships roll in
C E7 Am Am7 F
hoping that I will still be his friend
Am
in the morning
Am Am7 F
watching those ships roll by
C E7 Am Am7 F
wishing that I could move this earth
G
if I could
Am
for you I would do
Am Am7 F
I've got nothing to say
F Am7 Am
I've got nothing to lay at your feet
Am
I just keep hoping
Am7 F G Am
hope that you will be the man that I couldn't be
Am Am7 F
Still watching the oceans move
C E7 Am Am7 F
if only I could show you my soul
Am
and places I've been
Am Am7 F
watching the ocean come
C E7 Am Am7 F
and little girls playing in the sand as I walk
Am
longing to listen to you talk
Am Am7 F
I've got nothing to say
F Am7 Am
I've got nothing to lay at your feet
Am
I just keep hoping
Am7 F G Am
hope that you will be the man that I couldn't be
Am Am7 F
I've got nothing to say
F Am7 Am
I've got nothing to lay at your feet
Am
I just keep hoping
Am7 F G Am
hope that you will be the man that I couldn't be