Verse:  -a henderson-
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I don't need no shore leave
        Gb                               Db
'Cause feet fixed, I still sway to the sea's heave


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Don't need to be wrung  out or hung out to dry
                Db
I know how the lands lie


 Ab                  Bbm
And if you came on board
              Gb                        Db
I know you'd scan for the safety of a lighthouse blink


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Any port in a storm, love
      Gb
You promise you won't falter
       Db                  Ab
But I know I've seen men sink

Chorus: -a henderson and Joshua Burnside-
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So you should get on board
      Ab                       Bbm            Gb
With someone whose course is steadier than mine


               Db
You should get on board
      Ab                     Bbm
With someone whose eyes are on the horizon
 Gb
Not on the skies


Db              Ab
On board with someone
             Bbm               Gb
Whose anchor is heavier than mine


               Db   Db Ab
You should get on board
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Haa haaaaa

Verse: -a henderson-
  Gb           Bbm             Gb
'Cause I'm a flotsam jetsam mess
           Db           Db   Ab
a drunken sailor in a dre-ess


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And fifty fathoms deep no less
                    Db  Db  Ab
When my heart's at sea


Ab                   Bbm
And if you came on board
              Gb                         Db
I know you'd tire of the tossing of my seabed


 Ab                 Bbm
And forget what I said
  Gb                         Db            Ab
Ships were not built to be safe, no, no, no

Chorus: -a henderson and Joshua Burnside-
Ab                 Db
So you should get on board
      Ab                       Bbm            Gb
With someone whose course is steadier than mine


               Db
You should get on board
      Ab                     Bbm
With someone whose eyes are on the horizon
 Gb          Gb   Db
Not on the ski-ies


               Ab
On board with someone
             Bbm               Gb
Whose anchor is heavier than mine


               Db   Db Ab
You should get on board
F      Bbm   Gb
Ha ha haaaa

Verse: -Joshua Burnside:
 Gb                     Db
Well, I've weathered worse storms
          F
Than the one, the one you've been
Bbm                    Gb
  Brewin' up in your mind


 Gb               Db
I've weathered worse storms
       F                   Bbm
Lord knows, he knows I've been sailin'
        Gb
For an awfully long time


  Db                         F
Worse storms than all your fair-weather friends
     Bbm
And your shipmates combined
 Gb
Tie up those lines


       Db
'Cause I shot the albatross
    Ab
And I will swim across
    Bbm                       Gb
The old man and the sea has nothin' on me


        Db
'Cause this love is steady
 F
Truer than North
    Bbm                 Gb    Db
Now you take that on board
 Ab                Bbm   Gb
You take that on boar-oard

Chorus: -a henderson and Joshua Burnside-
Gb                  Db
No, you should get on board
      Ab                        Bbm           Gb
With someone whose course is steadier than mine


                     Db
      You should get on board

-I've weathered worse storms-
      Ab                     Bbm
With someone whose eyes are on the horizon
 Gb          Gb   Db
Not on the ski-ies

    -I stare at-


               Ab
On board with someone
             Bbm               Gb
Whose anchor is heavier than mine


        Gb             Db        Ab
       You should get on board

-I've sailed in a storm-


 Ab       Bbm       Gb
Will end for the year

Verse: -a henderson and Joshua Burnside-
-nc-         Db
I'll be the figurehead
    Ab
On your ship's bow
             Bbm
I'll be the last glimpse of a topsail
   Gb
As we go down


          Db
I'll be waiting on the seabed
   Ab
Repeating the words
         Bbm                    Gb
Don't forget, ships were not built to be safe

-You said-


        Db                Ab
And in all my life's mistakes
 Ab
You were not one
       Bbm
'Cause all I've ever done
 Gb
All I've ever done


    Db
Is love you
        Ab             Bbm   Gb    Db
To the bottom of the deep blue sea

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