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Thread #59918 Message #957875
Posted By: Charley Noble
22-May-03 - 04:54 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: While the Rich Man Rides By in His ...
Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: THE PEARL DIVER
Steve, I like your notes but I still think the refrain quoted by Brian is a match for the chorus of "The Pearl Diver." Maybe the composers or singer you mentioned had a hand in that one too. I've never found a trace of "The Pearl Diver" anywhere in over 50 years and Dennis no longer walks this earth. Here's the rest of that song in the interest of redundency:
Learned from the singing of Dennis Puleston of Brookhaven, Long Island, NY, in the 1950's.
THE PEARL DIVER
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 and 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 and pair.