diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index ae37ec3..8f78ece 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ dazu kommen in Frage: `Chordpack`, `songbook` - [ ] Mein Mädchen trau keinem Piraten (Mr. Hurley) [(ultimateguitar)](https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/mr-hurley-die-pulveraffen/trau-keinem-piraten-chords-2232609) - [ ] drink (alestorm) [(ultimateguitar)](https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/alestorm/drink-chords-1908910) - [X] oak and ash and thorn (longest johns) [(musescore)](https://musescore.com/user/55139838/scores/11673325) -- [ ] the flying Dutchman [(ultimateguitar)](https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/the-jolly-rogers-us-kansas-city-mo/the-flying-dutchman-chords-2702736) +- [X] the flying Dutchman [(ultimateguitar)](https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/the-jolly-rogers-us-kansas-city-mo/the-flying-dutchman-chords-2702736) - [ ] twiddles (misbehaving maidens) [(ultimateguitar)](https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/the-seadogs/twiddles-ukulele-2149583) - [ ] no more fucks to give (Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq) [(ultimateguitar)](https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/thomas-benjamin-wild-esq-/ive-no-more-fucks-to-give-chords-2576610) - [ ] skal (miracle of sound) [(ultimateguitar)](https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/4709474) diff --git a/cho/The_Flying_Dutchman.cho b/cho/The_Flying_Dutchman.cho new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5b37d9d --- /dev/null +++ b/cho/The_Flying_Dutchman.cho @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +{t: The Flying Dutchman} +{a: The Jolly Rogers} + +[Dm][Dm] + +[Dm]The sky was grey and cloudy and the wind was from the west +When we spied a battered frigate with her tattered sail full dressed +[Gm]They signaled they had letters home they asked if we could take +[Dm]They dropped 'em in a barrel they left bobbing in their wake + +[Dm]We reefed the sails and slowed the ship to fish the barrel out +The old ship sailed to the distance and we saw her come about +[Gm]The captain watched through a spyglass and we heard him catch his breath +[Dm]And we saw the storm a-brewing had become a wall of death + +{soc} +[A]Turn this ship around me boys, [G]turn around and run +[A]This storm it wants a battle and it's [G]sure that we're outgunned +[Dm]What of the ship that's [F]out there do we [G]leave her to the [A]gale? +She's called the Flying Dutchman and it's wraiths that fills her sails. +{eoc} + +The thunder growled like demons and the lightening stabbed the waves +And the Dutchman she lept towards us riding fury from the graves +Our captain he stayed at the wheel, the crew the manned the lines, +And still that ship and storm were quickly closing in behind. + +Our ship we crest a giant wave and crash to the trough below +The crew held on to what they could, they were damned if they let go. +The rain and sea and storm winds crashed against our ship with wrath +And from the deck of that cursed ship, we could hear them laugh + +{chorus} + +That was when we sighted land, it became a race wih time +We believed it Santa Marta, the Dutchman closing in behind +"Risk it all" the captain cried "it's the only chance we've got, +Salvation if we make it and our souls if we get caught." + +The storm was all around us and the Dutchman cut our winds, +The beast nearly capsized us, and we watched our strong mast bend +We were almost to the harbour, we could see the natural break, +And each man willed her forward, for they knew what was at stake + +{chorus} + +Once we charged into that harbour, the Dutchman heaved away +And we heard their bitter screams, for the Devil lost his prey. +Once we made it safely to the leeward of the bay, +We cracked that barrel open to see what those letters say. + +There must've been a hundred and that's when we realized, +Those moldy parchments were addressed to those who'd long since died. +If you see a battered frigate 'neath a grey and stormy sky, +Give way and watch mehind you, or you'll hear your captain cry: + +{chorus} diff --git a/images/flying_dutchman_strum.png b/images/flying_dutchman_strum.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2f21aed Binary files /dev/null and b/images/flying_dutchman_strum.png differ