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The Boatman Guitar Tablature
      The Boatman  (Chords)

                                                                   By The Levellers

Intoduction             E5  / E5 /   x3
                                  Dsus2 E5 / Dsus2 / E5 / E5 / E5 / E5

                                     E5                                                            Dsus2              E5
Verse   1                     If I could choose the life I pleased, then i would be a boatman.
                                                                                                  Dsus2                  E5        
                                  On the canals and the rivers free,no hasty words are spoken
                                          Dsus2                                             A
                                  My only Law is the river breeze,that takes me to the open seas.
                                     E5                                                             Dsus2           E5           / E5                                  
                                  If Icould choose the life I pleased then i would be a boatman.

Insrumental             E5 /E5

Then verse 2         ( Same chords slighly different lyrics dont no lyrics havent had time to pic em out)

Instrumental            E5  /  E5  / Dsus2  / Dsus2
                                   E5  / E5  / E5 /E5                                              (Something like that?)

                                   Bm                                             A                      Bm                               A     
Other bit                   But these things they are so hard for me,    I cannot choose my destiny,
                                   Bm                          A                                E5
                                   Now the things i want to see are so unclean. 
  
Instrumental bit 
again                         E5  / E5 /E5 /E5 

                                              E5                                                                  Dsus2      E5
Verse        3                Well, I wish I could choose the life I pleased, iam not a free man.
                                                                                     Dsus2              E5
                                    Others rule my destiny,but my wills never broken.

Sorry dont no lyrics for Outro either if u have the song its fairly clear i think.
                                     
Then Outro              D / A/  D/ A/
                                   E5/  Dsus2/  E5/
                                   D/ A/  D/ A/
                                   E5/  Dsus2/  E5/     x2
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