Procol Harum - A Salty Dog

      
 
 A SALTY DOG (simplified, in G)
 
 A worthy exercise in how majors, minors, sustained and sevenths of
 the same chords, as well as notes next to each other (E, F, F# G)
 can not only work together but be very melodic. Sort of orchestral?
 Zackly.
 
 G                   F#sus      F#     F#m7                Esus4 E 
 'All hands on deck, we've run afloe!' I heard the captain cry
    D6        D   F#m Bm        Bm7  F#m  Gm            Bb    
 'Explore the ship, replace the cook: let no one leave alive!'
 F                   C               F    Fmaj7           F7  
 Across the straits, around the Horn: how far can sailors fly?
 Bb                  Bbm                  F            Csus4-C 
 A twisted path, our tortured course, and no one left alive
 
 We sailed for parts unknown to man, where ships come home to die
 No lofty peak, nor fortress bold, could match our captain's eye
 Upon the seventh seasick day we made our port of call
 A sand so white, and sea so blue, no mortal place at all
 
 We fired the gun, and burned the mast, and rowed from ship to shore
 The captain cried, we sailors wept: our tears were tears of joy
 Now many moons, how many Junes, have passed since we made land
 A salty dog, this seaman's log: your witness my own hand
 
 (Most lyrics show the 7th word "afloat". Just as when you run into
 the ground, and then you've run aground, should you happen to run
 into an ice floe -- a big chunk of ice like an iceberg, but mostly
 flat -- then you've run afloe.)