D             G                 D
It's written of in papers, books and magazines
                G             D
For centuries adventurers set sail
                        G                    D
In schooners, clippers, sloops and brigs and barque tines
A                  G           D
O'er the deep blue ocean to prevail


[Verse 2]
                  G               D
Believing their dominion o'er the great salt sea
                          G                D
They'd snare the fish and smite the mighty whale
                      G                  D
But for every man who lived to boast his victory
  A                  G               D
A score or more were thwarted by the gale


[Chorus]
   C                G             D
As evenings curtain falls upon me like a shroud
    C                 G            D
I'm thinking of their cold eternal sleep
  C               G            D
Beneath the waves far too many souls to count
A               G               D
Lost out in the darkness on the deep


[Verse 3]
                     G                D
There always will be men who sail the ocean blue
                     G             D
But the romance is a thing of history
                      G                  D
In these hard times a man just does what he has to
   A              G            D
Providing for his wife and family


[Verse 4]
                  G                D
Not long ago just off the coast of Provincetown
                          G                        D
They found a radio beacon bobbing in a field of debris
                    G               D
Three days they did search but they never found
    A                G               D
The crew who worked aboard the Candy B


[Chorus]
   C                G             D
As evenings curtain falls upon me like a shroud
    C                 G            D
I'm thinking of their cold eternal sleep
  C               G            D
Beneath the waves far too many souls to count
A               G               D
Lost out in the darkness on the deep