Old Fat Boat

	  		Intro: C 

Verse 
                F          C 
Here I am, man, all alone again 
          G                   C 
Anchored aweigh, the hell and gone again 
        F                 C 
Another mile from another town 
    G                    C 
The wind north-east, the rain coming down 
F                   C 
Home is the sailor, home from the sea 
          G                                  C 
Leave the home for the mildew, friend to the flea 

 
        G              C 
I don't care, man, I'm happy 
         F                   C 
I got an old fat boat, she's slow but handsome 
G                     C 
Hard in the chine and soft in the transom 
F                       C 
I love her well and she must love me 
      G                      C 
But I think it's only for my money 


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Verse 
          F              C 
No more tobacco, no more cheese 
    G                      C 
I'm sprung in the back and lame in the knees 
       F                     C 
It's a damned good thing I'm easy to please 
            G                    C 
There ain't nothing in town on a Sunday 


        G              C 
I don't care, man, I'm happy 
         F                   C 
I got an old fat boat, she's slow but handsome 
G                     C 
Hard in the chine and soft in the transom 
F                       C 
I love her well and she must love me 
      G                      C 
But I think it's only for my money 

      F                         C 
And I don't mind staying, and I don't mind going 
      G                  C 
But I come damn tired of rowing 
       F                         C 
Yes, I don't mind staying, and I don't mind going 
      G                  C 
But I come damn tired of rowing 


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Verse 
        F              C 
Oh, but I got milk and I got ice 
         G                         C 
A little home-made bread, a little old, but nice 
F                    C 
Everybody puts their cooking hat on 
         G                              C 
When you tell 'em you're leaving in the morning 

 
        G              C 
I don't care, man, I'm happy 
         F                   C 
I got an old fat boat, she's slow but handsome 
G                     C 
Hard in the chine and soft in the transom 
F                       C 
I love her well and she must love me 
      G                      C 
But I think it's only for my money 

      F                         C 
And I don't mind staying, and I don't mind going 
      G                  C 
But I come damn tired of rowing 
       F                         C 
Yes, I don't mind staying, and I don't mind going 
      G                  C 
But I come damn tired of rowing 


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Verse 
          F             C 
You know, I got coffee, I got tea 
G                       C 
I got the beans and the beans got me 
F                C 
I got tuna fish, I got rum 
        G                  C 
I got a two-pound splinter in my thumb 

Bridge 
        F                    C 
So I'll take my toddy and my vitamin C 
        Dm                G 
And the radio for my company 
                                    C      F  G  C 
Oh, me, I got the hydrogen peroxide blues 

 
        G              C 
I don't care, man, I'm happy 
         F                   C 
I got an old fat boat, she's slow but handsome 
G                     C 
Hard in the chine and soft in the transom 
F                       C 
I love her well and she must love me 
      G                      C 
But I think it's only for my money 

      F                         C 
And I don't mind staying, and I don't mind going 
      G                  C 
But I come damn tired of rowing 
       F                         C 
Yes, I don't mind staying, and I don't mind going 
      G                  C 
But I come damn tired of rowing 


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Verse 
     F               C 
Well mercy, mercy, I do declare 
   G                            C 
If half the fun of going is the getting there 
F                 C 
Mercy, Percy, you better start rowing 
           G                              C 
'Cause the other half of getting there is going