Sailor's Rest Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[G][C][G]

[Verse 1]
(CHORUS [G]1)
It's acrimony down in the card room
With [C]winning hands thrown
on the baize;
[D]Forgotten cards wait on the end of debate
[C]On the good old day[D]s.
[G]Captains and mates getting testy
With [C]memories not of the best
[A]And[G] tempers are flying
[C]Down at the Sailor's Rest.
[G][C][G]

[Verse 2]
Blue eyes in wrinkled Morocco
Still [C]search the horizon for squalls,
And [D]Zeros [Dm]in t[D]he sky and the
watchkeep[C]er's eye
And the pawn shop [D]balls.[Dm]
[G]The spice in the wind off Java
And [C]the bars in Papity were be[A]st,
But the [G]deck is too steady
[C]Down at the Sailor's [G]Rest.

[Verse 3]
[G](Chorus 2)
[Dm]And [G]oh..[D].h[C]ow t[G]hey talk of
the day [C]they arrived;
When after [Em]the years,
all [C]the storms and the tears,
Still [Am]very much [D]alive.[Dm]
[D]And[C] oh.[G]..how their lives
were spilled out on [C]the floor
From [Em]the battered old seabags, the
[Am]journals and logs
And [Em]the keepsakes locked in [A]the chests
That [G]were stowed in the attic
[sold at the auc[C]tion]

[Interlude 1]
Down at the Sailor's Rest.
[G][C][G][Dm][C][G]
[C][Dm][C][D][C][Dm][D][G][Dm]
[C][A][G][C][G]

[Verse 4]
[G]No rail on the mess room table
And you're dead if you [C]spit on the floor.
No grog [Dm]allowed, no singing too loud,
[C]And no locks on [Dm]the doors;
But there's [G]always a fire in the card room
And the tuck[C]er is always the be[A]st,
And they'll [G]end it together
[C]Down at the Sailor's [G]Rest.

[Verse 5]
[G](CHORUS 2)
[D]And [C]oh.[G]..how they talked of the
day they arrived...
[C]So...(CHORUS 1)

[Outro 1]
[Em][C][Am][Dm][D][C][G][C]
[Em][C][Em][A]
[G][C][G]
[C][G][C][D][Dm][C][Dm]
[G][C][A][G][C][G]
[C][G][C][G][G]