C             F
When I was a young man
 C
I released my feet
           Am
And they carried me strong
              G
Across the trouble I'd meet
  F
When without peace
                 C
When weary the most
        Am
They'd head for the east
          G            C
And I'd sleep on the coast

[Verse 2]
  C                    F
When the summer's was ripe
  C
Come and knock on my door
          Am
See my friends and their pipes
 G
Sit upon my porch
  F
Alive was the highway
                    C
The light was the bridge
       Am
I got high in a way
     G           C
I haven't got since

[Chorus]
           C
Oh my Chesapeake
           G
Oh my Chesapeake
  F
Forget all the things
     C        G
My soul does seek
     C
The boy needs no dinner
                     F
When the tobacco is sweet
                            G    C    F  G C
I'll sleep tonight on the Chesapeake

[Verse 3]
                  F       C
We ran down our night in rundown hotels
        Am                G
With balcony cries and bottles and bells
      F                          C
To abandoned weeks, to hangover days
    Am                         G         C
To not quit tomorrow what we could quit today

[Chorus]
          C
Oh my Chesapeake
           G
Oh my Chesapeake
   F
Forget all the things
    C         G
My soul does seek
              C
I guess the moment is best
                     F
When the moment is brief
                           G    C      F  G Am  F  G Am  F  G Am D/F# G
I'll sleep tonight on the Chesapeake

[Verse 4]
      C          F    C
And now every summer I hear no call
        Am
If my friends are not lawyers
       G
They don't work at all
         F
You can call that man history
                  C
Who lives in the past
          Am                        G          C
Can you blame him for asking for something to last?

[Chorus]
          C
Oh my Chesapeake
           G
Oh my Chesapeake
  F
Forget all the things
     C        G
My soul does seek
          C
Another Sunday dead
                   F
Another needless week
                             G   C
I'll sleep tonight upon the Chesapeake
       F                     G   C    F  G  C
I'll sleep tonight upon the Chesapeake