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D   C
D   C
D   C
F  G  D

[Verse 1]:
      D              C
The Medusa sailed to Senegal
   D  C
in 1816
D                 C
First we lost the cabin boy
    F    G      D
Bad omen for us all
   D                C
We had to swing the lead
           D             C
There were shallows all around
       D                  C
With a sickening break we took to prayer
      F      G    D
The Medusa’s run aground

[Chorus]:
      G              F
We’re rolling on the raft
      G              F
We're sailing in the sun
        G   F
There's 150 on the raft
      F     G      D
We've lost another one
    G                F
You can't deny we're all at sea
 G          F
Adrift and alone
G                     F
How do you look a man in the eye
            F        G       D
When you're spitting out his bones

Repeat intro

[Verse 2]:
D                 C
Vive le Roi we’ll sail this raft
     D            C
Take all the company
    D    C
Yet 17 remained behind
   F      G  D
To die in agony
   D               C
We mutinied on the wine and fear
   D                  C
As bad as a knife and teeth
D       C
50 died on the raft
F  G     D
7 around me

[Chorus]:
      G              F
We’re rolling on the raft
      G              F
We're sailing in the sun
        G         F
There's 100 of us on the raft
      F      G     D
We've lost another one
    G                F
You can't deny we're all at sea
 G          F
Adrift and alone
G                     F
How do you look a man in the eye
            F        G       D
When you're spitting out his bones

Repeat intro

[Verse 3]:
  D                 C
A wondrous sight so bright and white
  D                 C
A Butterfly sent by God
   D                 C
We follow it down to swallow it down
     F    G   D
I’ll haul for us
D             C
Pray to the almighty
   D                    C
Or cast yourself in the sea
     D         C
As a brig, the Argus
      F         G       D
Comes close but doesn’t see

[Chorus]:
      G              F
We’re rolling on the raft
      G              F
We're sailing in the sun
        G        F
There's 70 of us on the raft
      F     G      D
We've lost another one
    G                F
You can't deny we're all at sea
 G          F
Adrift and alone
G                     F
How do you look a man in the eye
            F        G       D
When you're spitting out his bones

Repeat intro

[Verse 4]:
    D             C
And in my arms my own true flesh
D            C
Died so quietly
D             C
Praise to the butterfly
       F G    D
Or the almighty
    D                       C
And in my mouth my own true flesh
D               C
Tasted sweet to me
D             C
Praise to the butterfly
       F     G   D
Or the Argus finally!

[Chorus]:
      G              F
We’re rolling on the raft
      G              F
We're sailing in the sun
        G        F
There's 20 of us on the raft
      F     G      D
We've lost another one
    G                F
You can't deny we're all at sea
 G          F
Adrift and alone
G                     F
How do you look a man in the eye
            F        G       D
When you're spitting out his bones