Starboard Larboard — Oh Billy One-Handed

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[Instrumental]
Am Am Am

[Verse 1]
Am         C          G            Am
One-Handed Billy will tell you the tale
       C       G               D               Em
Of the data we sought that was deadlier than a whale
   Am         C          G           Am
We set off to sea and we brought dynamite
   Em            G         C        Am
To shoot seismic lines all into the night

[Instrumental]
Am Am Am

[Verse 2]
   Am            C          G           Am
We ran lines all day as the echoes they came
C               G              D          Em
All through the hull you could hear the refrain
   Am          C     G          Am
We blasted the sea into kingdom come
    Em      G            C          Am
For data we sailed every day in the sun

[Instrumental]
Am Am Am

[Chorus]
F              C
Hey ho let the dynamite go
   G                       Am
We won’t go home ’till the last one’s thrown
   F                     C
Be sure to release, then tighten your cheeks
    G                     C             Am
The seismic recorder will chart all the peaks

[Instrumental]
Am Am Am

[Verse 3]
     Am          C            G         Am
With hydrophones streaming kilometers behind
    C            G           D            Em
And Cores from below showing spreading in kind
   Am               C            G         Am
We pummeled Earth’s crust up the mid-ocean rise
   Em          G         C                Am
Tectonic drift proof was Marie Tharp’s surprise

[Verse 4]
      Am            C            G            Am
After six weeks off shore, every day the same din
   C               G          D             Em
We drowned out the sound with beer and with gin
      Am               C         G               Am
‘Till stores were near empty but still we sailed on
    Em       G           C         Am
The dynamite singing low frequency songs

[Instrumental]
Am Am Am

[Verse 5]
    Am           C          G             Am
Regulations were scarce and daylight grew thin
C        G                 D         Em
Dynamite Billy quaffed his ration of gin
   Am       C          G              Am
At interval spacing he lobbed o’r the side
    Em         G            C          Am
One stick at a time on this foreboding line

[Instrumental]
Am Am Am

[Verse 6]
       Am           C           G            Am
On the twenty-third shot of the ninth survey line
        C        G       D          Em
Billy’s interval spacing drifted in time
  Am           C          G            Am
Before his shipmates knew anything was wrong
      Em           G          C          Am
Billy held on that sparkler a moment too long

[Instrumental]
Am Am Am Am
Am Am Am

[Verse 7]
Am            C             G            Am
See you young survey techs, now you know why
      C             G           D             Em
We compress all our air and our ships are all dry
    Am         C               G         Am
And ye who run airguns, please listen to me
Em              G             C        Am
Things would be worse without OSHA safety		
    

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