Am, B, C, D, Em, G
A pox, a pox upon this ground, I'd give it up just to burn it down
And if they die, you can blame it on me, I'd be setting up gravestones in my own town
I wish I had been born at sea, then you wouldn't care and you wouldn't know me
I've been flowing, they just don't carry me home, it's only water and air as far as I can see
Oo
read back what we had from a previous time my ancestral passage here was written down
each year by year but the map is too old see they've forgotten the roads and so we're living
by the creases, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-
And if they die, you can blame it on me. I've been setting up gravestones in my hometown
I'm sure I'd been born at sea, then you wouldn't care and you wouldn't know me
I've been flown, they just won't carry me home. It's only water and air as far as I can see