White Squall   Stan Rogers

White Squall  Stan Rogers






 


 WHITE SQUALL Time: 4/4 Tenor: C Bass: A


 - Stan Rogers, 1982, on: From Fresh Water


 


 1 * 6m 4


 Now 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


 


 1 * 6m 4


 The kid was so damned eager, it was all so big and new


 3 * 2m 5


 You never had to tell him twice, or find him work to do


 1 * 6m 4


 And evenings on the mess deck, he was always first to sing


 3m 5 1 *


 And show us pictures of the girl he'd wed in spring


 


 CHORUS ONE (after verses 1, 3,):


 But I [5]told that kid a [57]hundred times, don't [4]take the lakes for [3]granted


 They'll [6m]go from calm to a [3]hundred knots, so [2m]fast they seem en-[5]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:


 And I [5]tell these kids a [57]hundred times, don't [4]take the lakes for [3]granted


 They'll [6m]go from calm to a [3]hundred knots, so [2m]fast they seem en-[5]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 D E F G A B


 - Detailed description: /pub/guitar/other_stuff/numbering_system.txt


 


 - Submitted by: Barrie McCombs (bmccombs@acs.ucalgary.ca)







    
    
    

        
            
            
            
        
    
    

    

    

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