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Thread #30491   Message #534029
Posted By: Charley Noble
23-Aug-01 - 01:41 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: The Pearl Diver (A. B. 'Banjo' Paterson)
Subject: Chords Add: THE PEARL DIVER
Finally got around to doing the chords for this one. Copy and paste into Word using size 12 Times font and the chord positions should be fairly close:

THE PEARL DIVER
(Learned from the singing of the late Dennis Puleston of Brookhaven, Long Island, NY, in the 1950's.)

C
Rich men who go to Woolworth's
-------F
Buying treasures for their girls,
------G
Little dream of all the perils
---C
Of those who dive for pearls.

---------------G-C
See the diver in the ocean
--------------------G-C
Fighting with the oc-to-pus,
G----C--F
While the cruel sharks lie waiting,
---------G7
Saying: "Here's a meal for us!"

--------C
And the rich man drives by
------F
In his car-ri-age en pair,
G
Little does he care,
C
Little does he care,
-----------F----------F7
Though the diver cries "Help!"
---C------E7—A7
He heedeth him not
----D7
But tells his man in livery
-------G----G7
"Drive on at a trot!"

C
Quickly the lifeboat
----F
Puts out from the shore
G
But it's too late,
---C
He meets a cruel fate;
----------F--------------F7
And in the shark's inner or-gans
---C-------E7-A7
He breaths a last prayer,
---------D7------------G
While the rich man drives by
------G7---------C
In his car-ri-age en pair.