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Tuning: Standard EADGBe, no capo
This is a great song off a wonderful album, and it has some tricky progressions 
here and there. However, I think this is pretty much spot-on. Comments and 
Note: In the second and third instrumentals, I have notated the rhythm of some of 
the chords using slashes and bar lines- the chords should be on the first, third 
Chord shapes:
Em:   022000
F#m7: 242222 or 244200
Bm7:  x24232
A:    x02220
D/F#: 2x0232 (wrap your thumb round the neck for the bass note & muting the A-string)
G:    320033 or 320003
D:    xx0232
Bm:   x24432
F#m:  244222
INTRO
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Em F#m7 Bm7 A
VERSE 1
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I've sEm7ailed the whole world over, aF#m7cross the seven seas
I cBm7ourted my sweetheart undernAeath the Kaori trees
I travelled with the north wind, up to the Bering Strait
Around the horn and home again; for that is the sailor's fate
INSTRUMENTAL
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 Bm7   A(x4)
VERSE 2 (same as verse 1)
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Across the barren wasteland of the frozen Arctic sea
Through Polynesian breezes and southern storms sailed we
The wind all in the rigging sings a lonely lullaby
                         Bm7                  A   Bm(2 beats)
A sailor I have always been; a sailor I will die
CHORUS
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AcD/F#ross the lGine, the GDulf Stream
GWorking your life awDay
ArD/F#ound the hGorn and hBmome again
   AFor that is the sailor's Bmway
INSTRUMENTAL
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 Bm7   A(x2)
| G/  Bm  A| D/  A  G|
D-G  
F#m-F#m7  
 Bm7   A(x8)
VERSE 3 (different)
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GWe sailed up to the nAorthward, we sailed up to the eBmast
We reefed our sail in the stF#m7rongest gale and stood in the calmest sGea
Ocean bound by Dusky Sound and Pegasus through the strait
Port Cooper, ocean, Tom Kane Bay; for that is the sailor's fate
INSTRUMENTAL
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 Em7   F#m7(x4)
| G/  Bm  A| D/  A  G|
D-G  
F#m-F#m7  
CHORUS
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Across the line, the Gulf Stream
Working your life away
Around the horn and home again
Across the line, the Gulf Stream
Working your life away
Around the horn and home again
For that is the sailor's way
OUTRO
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Bm A G F#m7 Bm

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Across The Line

by Bellowhead

Lyrics & chords · Original key

Chords in this song · guitar

Bm7

D/F#

F#m

F#m7

Em7

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Tuning: Standard EADGBe, no capo

This is a great song off a wonderful album, and it has some tricky progressions

here and there. However, I think this is pretty much spot-on. Comments and

Note: In the second and third instrumentals, I have notated the rhythm of some of

the chords using slashes and bar lines- the chords should be on the first, third

Chord shapes:

: 022000

F#m7: 242222 or 244200

Bm7

: x24232

: x02220

D/F#

: 2x0232 (wrap your thumb round the neck for the bass note & muting the A-string)

: 320033 or 320003

: xx0232

: x24432

F#m

: 244222

INTRO

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Em F#m7 Bm7 A

VERSE 1

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Em7 F#m7

I've sailed the whole world over, across the seven seas

Bm7 A

I courted my sweetheart underneath the Kaori trees

I travelled with the north wind, up to the Bering Strait

Around the horn and home again; for that is the sailor's fate

INSTRUMENTAL

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Bm7 A

(x4)

VERSE 2 (same as verse 1)

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Across the barren wasteland of the frozen Arctic sea

Through Polynesian breezes and southern storms sailed we

The wind all in the rigging sings a lonely lullaby

Bm7 A Bm

(2 beats)

A sailor I have always been; a sailor I will die

CHORUS

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D/F# G D

Across the line, the Gulf Stream

G D

Working your life away

D/F# G Bm

Around the horn and home again

A Bm

For that is the sailor's way

INSTRUMENTAL

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Bm7 A

(x2)

G Bm A D A G

| / | / |

D G

F#m F#m7

Bm7 A

(x8)

VERSE 3 (different)

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G A Bm

We sailed up to the northward, we sailed up to the east

F#m7 G

We reefed our sail in the strongest gale and stood in the calmest sea

Ocean bound by Dusky Sound and Pegasus through the strait

Port Cooper, ocean, Tom Kane Bay; for that is the sailor's fate

INSTRUMENTAL

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Em7 F#m7

(x4)

G Bm A D A G

| / | / |

D G

F#m F#m7

CHORUS

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Across the line, the Gulf Stream

Working your life away

Around the horn and home again

Across the line, the Gulf Stream

Working your life away

Around the horn and home again

For that is the sailor's way

OUTRO

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Bm A G F#m7 Bm

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