Stewart-

It is important to work this out to a more flowing rhythm.

The chords are morphing so the basic structure now looks more like:

C-------------G-C-F---C----------F
We shipped a sea on Christmas night,
----C-----------------------G-----------G7
On Christmas night, on Christmas night!
-------C----G-C-----F---C--------------F
From stem to stern the decks flowed white –
----C---------------------------G-----C
On Christmas night till the morn-ing!
-------F-----------------------C
"One more like that," the mate did say,
F-----C-----------------------G--------G7
"And she'll not last till the break of day,"
----C----G--C-------F--C------F
So deep she rolled, so ill she lay –
C----------------------------G-----C
All the night long till the morn-ing!

I suspect there's a bit of "Ticondaroga" embedded in what I'm playing. The sailor's story as might be expected has it's own chord structure and refuses to settle down.

Q-

Some of the poems published in Red Ensign were reprinted in SEA SONGS AND BALLADS. It's a fairly rare volume but does surface on the used book lists now and again.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble