Down among the dead men (1978)
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C
1. It was night, a starry
moonless sight,
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out
in the mid
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She was big, this ship of luxury,
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everything was peaceful, no safer place to be.
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G
And she sailed through the night, on her way.
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+ Down among the dead
men,
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down
among the dead men the band played.
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- C - F - G - C
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G D
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+ She sailed, the
virgin, she sailed the sea,
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down among the dead
men.
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C
2. Captain Smith, the master in command,
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- E
a man with wealth of
wisdom, a fine upstanding man.
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But the fog, he didn‘t hear the calls,
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the ice mountain was
waiting for fifteen hundred souls.
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And she sailed through the night, on her way.
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G - Am
+ Down among the dead
men,
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G - Am
down
among the dead men
the band played.
+ C - F - G - C - C - F - G -
C (2x)
E - Am E - G D - F - G
+ She sailed, the
virgin, she sailed the sea,
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G - Am
down among the dead
men.
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F G Am
Down among the dead men and into history.
+ Am - C
- F - E
(5x) ….
(Flash And
The Pan)