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	Am
	The sailors climb the tree

Up the terrible tree

	G
	Where are my shipmates

Have they sunk beneath the sea

	Am
	I do not know much, but I know this cannot be

	G	F
It isn't	really, it isn't	really

	E
Tell me it isn't	really

The sounding bell is diving down the water green

Not a trace, not a tooth brush, not a cigarette was seen

Bubble ball is rising from a whisper or a scream

But I'm not screaming, no I'm not screaming

Tell me I'm not screaming

Chorus:

	C	Bb
	Captain will not say how	long we must remain

	C	Am	Dm7
	The phantom ship for	ever sails the	sea

	E
	It's all the same

Captain, my dear Captain, we're staying down so long

I have been a good man, I've done nobody wrong

Have we left are ladies for the lyrics of a song

That I'm not singing, no I'm not singing

Tell me I'm not singing

The schooner ship is sliding across the kitchen sink

My son and my daughter, they won't know what to think

The crew has turned to voting, and the officers to drink

But I'm not drinking, no I'm not drinking

Tell me I'm not drinking

Chorus:

The radio is begging them to come back to the shore

All will be forgiven, it will be just like before

All you've ever wanted will be waiting by your door

We will forgive you, we will forgive you

Tell me, we will forgive you

But no one gives an answer, not even one good-bye

The silence of their sinking is all that they reply

Some have chosen to decay, and others chose to die

But I'm not dying, no I'm not dying

Tell me I'm not dying

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Scorpion Departs But Never Returns

Phil Ochs

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