White Squall Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

Chorus one

after verses 1, 3,):

5 57 4 3

But I told that kid a hundred times, don't take the lakes for granted

6m 3 2m 5

They'll go from calm to a hundred knots, so fast they seem en-chanted

1 * 6m 4

But to-night some red-eyed Wiarton girl, lies staring at the wall

3 5 1 *

And her lover's gone in-to a white squall

Now it's a thing that us old-timers know, in a sultry summer calm

There comes a blow from nowhere, and it goes off like a bomb

And a sixteen thousand tonner can be thrown upon her beam

While the gale takes all before it with a scream

The kid was on the hatches, lying staring at the sky

>From where I stood, I swear I could, see tears fall from his eye

So I hadn't the heart to tell him, that he should be on a line

Even on a night so warm and fine

CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO

NOTES:

- Write for the sheet music

WHITE SQUALL PAGE TWO

1 * 6m 4

When it struck, he sat up with a start, I roared to him: Get down

3 * 2m 5

But for all that he could hear, I might as well not made a sound

1 * 6m 4

So I clung there to the stanchions and I felt my face grow pale

3m 5 1 *

As he crawled hand-over-hand along the rail

1 * 6m 4

Now I could feel her heeling over with the fury of the blow

3 * 2m 5

And I watched the rail go under then, so terrible and slow

1 * 6m 4

Then like some great dog she shook herself and roared upright a-gain

3m 5 1 *

While overside I heard him call my name

1 * 6m 4

So it's just my luck to have the watch, with nothing left to do

3 * 2m 5

But watch the deadly waters glide, as we roll north to the Soo

1 * 6m 4

And wonder when they'll turn again, and pitch us to the rail

3m 5 1 *

And whirl off one more youngster in the gale

Chorus two

5 57 4 3

And I tell these kids a hundred times, don't take the lakes for granted

6m 3 2m 5

They'll go from calm to a hundred knots, so fast they seem en-chanted

1 * 6m 4

But to-night some red-eyed Wiarton girl, lies staring at the wall

3 5 1 *

And her lover's gone into a white squall

SYMBOLS:

- Asterisk (*) = new measure, play same chord

- Period (.) = 1/8 note rest at start of a measure

- Underline(_) = sustain note into next measure

CHORDS (Number System):

- Example: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

- Key of

C

 -C DetaiDled deEscriptFion: /Gpub/guAitar/oBther_stuff/numbering_system.txt