Am         E            F        E
It's a damn tough life full of toil and strife
    F        G    Am
We whalermen undergo
       Am           E             F      E
And we don't give a damn when the day is done
    F        G         Am

How hard the winds did blow
            C                       G
Cause we're homeward bound from the Arctic ground
       Am                  E
With a good ship, taut and free

       Am           E            F         E
And we don't give a damn when we drink our rum
         F        G   Am
With the girls of Old Maui


[chorus 1]

        C           G
Rolling down to Old Maui, me boys
        Am          E
Rolling down to Old Maui
      Am       E              F      E
We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground
        F       G   Am
Rolling down to Old Maui


[verse 2]

      Am      E          F          E
Once more we sail with a northerly gale
    F          G     Am
Towards our island home.
    Am        E            F      E
Our mainmast sprung, our whaling done,
        F        G      Am
And we ain't go far to roam.
      C                G
Six hellish months we passed away
       Am              E
On the cold Kamchatka Sea,
     Am         E              F     E
But now we're bound from the Arctic ground
         F       G   Am
Rolling down to Old Maui.


[chorus 2]

          C          G
Rolling down to Old Maui, me boys
         Am          E
Rolling down to Old Maui
      Am       E              F      E
We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground
        F       G   Am
Rolling down to Old Maui.


[verse 3]

      Am      E          F          E
Once more we sail with a northerly gale
       F       G        Am
To the ice and wind and rain.
     Am        E            F      E
Them coconut fronds, them tropical lands,
        F     G   Am
We soon shall see again.
    C                   G
Our stuns and bones are carried away
     Am               E
What care we for that sound?
  Am     E       F     E
A living gale is after us,
      F         G        Am
Thank God we're homeward bound.


[chorus 3]

        C           G
Rolling down to Old Maui, me boys
        Am          E
Rolling down to Old Maui
      Am       E              F      E
We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground
        F       G   Am
Rolling down to Old Maui.


[verse 4]

      Am      E          F          E
How soft the breeze through the island trees,
        F      G      Am
Now the ice is far astern.
     Am     E           F        E
Them native maids, them tropical glades
    F       G   Am
Is awaiting our return.
     C                   G
Even now their big brown eyes look out
       Am               E
Hoping some fine day to see
    Am     E    F       E
Our baggy sails runnin' for the gales
        F       G   Am
Rolling down to old Maui.


[chorus 4]

        C           G
Rolling down to Old Maui, me boys
        Am          E
Rolling down to Old Maui
      Am       E              F      E
We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground
        F       G   Am
Rolling down to Old Maui.


[chorus 5]

        C           G
Rolling down to Old Maui, me boys
        Am          E
Rolling down to Old Maui
      Am       E              F      E
We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground
        F       G   Am
Rolling down to Old Maui.