Verse 1: C C/G C C/G Come all ye starry star-fish, F C C/G C C/G living in the deep blue sea. C C/G C C/G Crawl to me; I have a propo- F C C/G C C/G sition to make thee. C C/G C C/G Would you walk the North Sea floor, F C C/G C C/G to Belgium from Eng-land?
Chorus 1:
C C/G Am Bring me word of a banjo man, F C C/G C C/G With a tattoo on his hand.
Verse 2:
C C/G C C/G The spokesman of the star-fish, F C C/G C C/G spoke as spokesman should. C C/G C C/G "If'n you met our fee then, F C C/G C C/G certainly we would. C C/G C C/G If you cast a looking-glass F C C/G C C/G u-pon the scallopped sand;
Chorus 2:
C C/G Am You'll have word o' this banjo man, F C C/G C C/G With a tattoo on his hand".
Verse 3:
C C/G C C/G Come all ye starry star-fish, F C C/G C C/G I know your ways are caped. C C/G C C/G Maybe its be-cause you're astro- F C C/G C C/G logically shaped. C C/G C C/G Converse with the herring shoals, F C C/G C C/G as I know you can,
Chorus 3:
C C/G Am Bring me word o' the banjo man, F C C/G C C/G With a tattoo on his hand.
Verse 4:
C C/G C C/G The eldest of the star-fish F C C/G C C/G spoke after a sigh; C C/G C C/G "Youthful as you are young man, F C C/G C C/G you have a 'Wisdom Eye'; C C/G C C/G Surely you must know a looking-glass, F C C/G C C/G is made from sand
Chorus 4:
C C/G Am These young-fish are fooling you, F C C/G C C/G A-bout this banjo man."
Verse 5:
C C/G C C/G "Come then aged star-fish, F C C/G C C/G riddle me no more. C C/G C C/G For news I am wea-ry, F C C/G C C/G and my heart is sore. C C/G C C/G All on the silent sea-shore, F C C/G C C/G help me if you can,
Chorus 5:
C C/G Am Tell to me, if you know, F C C/G C C/G of this banjo man".
Verse 6:
C C/G C C/G "All through the seven o-ceans, F C C/G C C/G I am a star most famed. C C/G C C/G Many 'leggys' have I lost, F C C/G C C/G and many have I gained. C C/G C C/G Strange to say, quite recent-ly, F C C/G C C/G I've been to Fleming Land,
Chorus 6:
C C/G Am And if you are courteous, F C C/G C C/G I'll tell you all I can.
Verse 7:
C C/G C C/G "You have my full at-ten-tion" F C C/G C C/G I answered him with glee, C C/G C C/G His brother stars were twink-ling, F C C/G C C/G in the sky above the sea. C C/G C C/G So I sat there with rapt F C C/G C C/G at-tention, on the sand,
Chorus 7:
C C/G Am Very anxious for to hear, F C C/G C C/G of the banjo man.
Verse 8:
C C/G C C/G "I have seen this tattooed hand, F C C/G C C/G through a ship port-hole. C C/G C C/G Steaming on the watery main, F C C/G C C/G through the waves so cold. C C/G C C/G Heard his tinkling banjo, and F C C/G C C/G his voice so grand.
Chorus 8:
C C/G Am C/G But you must come to Belgium, F C C/G C to shake his tattooed hand."
Verse 9:
C C/G C C/G "Gladly would I come, oh, F C C/G C C/G gladly would I go. C C/G C C/G Had I not my work to do, F C C/G C C/G and my face to show. C C/G C C/G I re-joice to know he's well, F C C/G C C/G but I must go in-land,
Chorus 9:
C C/G Am Thank you for the words you brought, F C C/G C C/G of the banjo man".
Verse 10:
C C/G C C/G I walked a-long the evening sand, F C C/G C C/G as charcoal clouds did shift. C C/G C C C/G Re-vealing the moon shi-ning, F C C/G C C/G on the pebble drift. C C/G C C/G Contem-plating every other word, F C C/G C C/G the starfish said;
Chorus 10:
C C/G Am Whistly winds, they filled my dreams, F C C/G C C/G in my dreaming bed.