The Coasts Of High Barbary (hi-lo)

by 16th C. English sea chantey

Type:: Diatonic
Key:: G
Posted by:: WaltP

THE COASTS OF HIGH BARBARY hi-lo
16th C. English sea chantey
Key: G
Time: 6/8

 2   2  -3”   -3”-3   4
 5   5  -6    -6 -7   7
Look a-head, look a-starn

 -3   3   -3”  4  -3   3  -3”
 -7   6   -6   7  -7   6  -6
Look the weath-er and the lee

 -4   5    4   -4  -3 -3”-3 4  -4 5
 -8   8    7   -8  -7 -6-7  7  -8 8
Blow high blow low and so sail-ed we

5  5  5   5   4   -4   -4
8  8  8   8   7   -8   -8
I see a wreck to wind-ward 

-44 -3 4  -4  5   -3” 3
-87 -7 7  -8  8   -6  6
And a lof-ty ship to lee

3  -3” -3”  -3” -3” -3”-3    4
6  -6  -6   -6  -6  -6 -7    7
A sail-ing down all on the coasts

-4  5   -3” 3  -3”
-8  8   -6  6  -6
Of High Bar-ba-ry