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[Verse 1]
C      D            G
   4 o'clock in the morning,
  Em         D          G
a new days beginning to clear.
    C                          Em
The fishing boats dance on the dawning,
    C            D            G
The Ranger pulls out from the pier.
      C                   Em
We've said goodbye to the ones we love,
C D           G
  Back on the shore.
    C                         Em
Got tanks full of diesel, got ice in the hold,
C       D          G
  We're ready once more.


[Chorus]
        C         D                G
And the tide runs hard through the Blackhole,
                            C
And the crew go below for a sleep.
                                 G
I pick out the lights that don't matter,
      C               G        D
we're bound where the ocean is deep.
     C      D            G
It's 7 long hours to the Stanton,
                                 C
but the Rangers well fit for the trip.
                           G               Em
A couple of tows round the banks and we'll have,
   C        D           G
90 boxes of fish in the ship.


[Instrumental]
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[Verse 2]
    C           D         G
Now I come from seafaring people,
    Em              D          G
now I've worked the sea all my life.
    C                         Em
Can mend, I can splice, I'm a Skipper,
         C           D            G
I'll put surgeons to shame with a knife.
     C                           Em
It's all that I know and there's no other place,
C      D          G
  that I'd rather be,
     C                     Em
than rolling around on the top of the waves,
C     D          G
  The Ranger and me.


[Chorus]
        C         D                G
And the tide runs hard through the Blackhole,
                            C
And the crew go below for a sleep.
                                 G
I pick out the lights that don't matter,
      C               G        D
we're bound where the ocean is deep.
     C      D            G
It's 7 long hours to the Stanton,
                                 C
but the Rangers well fit for the trip.
                           G               Em
A couple of tows round the banks and we'll have,
   C        D           G
90 boxes of fish in the ship.


[Outro]
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