D  G    D  G
D  G  D  G  D  G  D  G

[Verse]
         D                    G
Sterling Hayden on a barge in Amsterdam
             D                   A
One of those backwater Dutch canals
  D                         G
A bottle of Johnny Walker between his legs
     A                  D
Drunk but articulate as hell

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                                         G                                 D
He was saying, "Yeah, I ratted on people during the McCarthy Era, huh, yah
                                   A                              D
You haven't the foggiest notion of the contempt I feel for myself
                    G
Maybe that's why we drink, huh? (hiccup)
A                               D
Some damn thing, shipwrecks the heart"

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                                  G
Sterling Hayden on a three-masted schooner
              D                          A
Kidnapped his kids and sailed 'round the globe
      D                              G
But a man can sail around in one big circle
          A                         D
And not escape his wounded sailor's soul

[Chorus]
                     G
So, heave her up the mainsail, boys
D                        A
Heave her up and away we go
      D             D7            G            E
We're bound for the bay where the white whales play
       A                   D
On the midnight straits of Jericho
                             G
And if ever I return, Pretty Peggy O
         D                 A
All your cities I will burn, yeah, I would
          D         D7                 G     E
With your cardboard sea and your paper moon
         A                        D
Over the penny arcade called Hollywood

[Instrumental]
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[Verse]
        D                                G
You ran guns through the German lines in World War Two
           D                  A
The Viking God stood six-feet-five
           D                               G
Played in 'Johnny Guitar' and 'The Asphalt Jungle'
             A                  D
'The Killing' and 'The Long Goodbye'

[Verse]
                             G
I saw him once on the Johnny Carson show
D                      A
Late in his troubled career
        D                                     G
He said, "Just give me a room overlooking the Hudson, yah
                                 A                                   D
With a typewriter and a mattress, I'll write you a helluva novel, my dears"

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                           G
So here's to all the tough guy actors
        D                    A
And the false gods who made 'em
        D                            G
And wherever he sails tonight on the Seven Seas
        A                       D
May the lord sail with Sterling Hayden

[Chorus]
                    G
So, heave her up my bully boys
D                        A
Heave her up and away we go
      D             D7            G           E
We're bound for the bay where the white whale plays
       A                   D
In the midnight straits of Jericho
                             G
And if ever I return, Pretty Peggy O
         D                 A
All your cities I will burn, yeah, I would
          D         D7                 G     E
With your cardboard sea and your paper moon
         A                        D           G
Over the penny arcade called Hollywood, yeah
             D
Heave her up
          G                D   G   D
Heave her up my bully boys