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Em A#m
Gatesy: See the lonely township, peacefully sleeping.
Em A#m
The sun hides once again behind the sea-ea-ea-ea-ea-ea....
Em
Most are safely dreaming:
A#m
Angel kisses...
Yon: (Makes 'kiss kiss kiss... flutter flutter flutter' noises)
(Pause)
Gatesy: Butterflies...
Yon: BWARK! BWARK! BWARK!
(Pause)
Em D
Gatesy: But sinners can't escape so easily.
Am Em
Yon: The murderers, the thieves, and the fraudulent.
Am Em
Tripod: The overweight, the working-class, the foreigners.
Scod: Urgh!
Am Em
Tripod: They all must beware, for what's that looming there?
D B
An evil spectre on the sea!
Scod: Wooooaw!
Em C D
Tripod: Ghost Ship!
Em C D
Ghost Ship!
Em
Ghost Ship!
C D
Gatesy: Coming to get them...
Em
Tripod: Ghost Ship!
C D
Scod: Sinners, beware!
Em
Tripod: Ghost Ship!
C D
Scod: Ain't no escaping...
B (palm muted)
Tripod: ... the Ghost Ship coming there...
Yon: Toot toot!
(Pause)
Scod: What was that, Yon?
Yon: What was that? It's the Ghost Ship - Toot toot!
Scod: Yon, it's gotta be scary!
Yon: Umm... right, yeah. TOOT TOOT.
Scod: Yon, it's the Ghost Ship, all right. It's gotta be really disturbing.
Gatesy: Grrrrr....
Yon: Umm... oh! Milky discharge.
Gatesy: Yeah!
Scod: Yeah!
Gatesy: That's disturbing!
Scod: Spot on!
G
Scod: Its masts are made of piled-up skulls,
D
Its decks are made of human nuts.
C
Its sails are made of sailor skin.
D
Tripod: Its guts are made of...
Scod: ... guts!
Em
Tripod: It's a feat of engineering.
C
Yon: I wonder who built it?
D
Gatesy: I wonder who built it as well, Yonny.
G D
Gatesy: Out of the night, under the ocean stars,
G Em D
I was standing with my baby on the boardwalk, and the Ghost Ship was there.
C G
I took her to the pictures,
Am Em
And then I took her home, yeah!
C G(Scod stops playing)
And then I took her to heaven, you know what I mean...
Gatesy: And it was kind of dirty, and we got out the Glad Wrap...
(Audience cheer)
Scod: I don't want to stop it, but... umm... now, I'm just gonna go with
some of the audience reaction...
Gatesy: Yeah...
Scod: ... and suggest that a few of the punters, they've spotted the same
inconsistency that I've spotted, Gatesy! Now, when did this suddenly
become about some woman?
Gatesy: Ohh, I see, right! Well, I figured that if this Tosswinkle the Pirate
show was like a concept album, then this Ghost Ship song would be our
first single, yeah? And we want to make a bit of money out of this for
a change, yeah?
So if we want to get this... want to get this single selling - sure,
the guys, Dave, he loves that 'ooga booga' scary stuff, with the galleon
and the water, and OOOH!, but the girls - as soon as you talk about love,
now you have the ladies listening. Ahh! Because the girls want to imagine
they're making love to the singer.
(Audience laughter)
Gatesy: They're not supposed to laugh at that one.
Scod: Hmm!
Gatesy: Go with me guys on this - a one-ie and a two-ie and a three-four.
Em C
Tripod: Ghost Ship!
D
Gatesy: My baby kisses like a...
Em C
Tripod: Ghost Ship!
D
Gatesy: I touched my baby on her...
Em
Tripod: Ghost Ship!
C D
Gatesy: My trousers are bursting...
Scod: All right, all right, stop the train! Just a minute, all right, okay.
Sorry - 'I touched my baby on her Ghost Ship'.
Gatesy: Yeah!
Scod: Now... where exactly is a woman's 'Ghost Ship'?
Gatesy: Don't you know?
Scod: know... I'm just seeing, you know, if it translates.
Yon: That... that's enough. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think you're
onto something, Gatesy. I think, you know, this whole love thing could be...
could be a bit of a... unit mover.
Gatesy: I reckon!
Yon: Yeah! I mean, but, you're just coming in a little bit too fast, though, that's all.
Gatesy: You reckon?
Yon: You know, you need to create a little bit of a mood, you know, get inside
the head of a female girl, you know? Can I give you an example of what I mean?
Scod: Sure.
Yon: After two - one, two.
Em
Tripod: Ghost Ship!
C D
Yon: Expressing my feelings...
Em
Tripod: Ghost Ship!
C D
Yon: Being a good listener...
Em
Tripod: Ghost Ship!
C D
Yon: A thoughtful companion...
Scod: I don't even know what this song's about any more!
Gatesy: So, it's like foreplay?
Yon: Yeah!
Scod: NO! It's not about foreplay! All right, it's not, it's about a horrible
spectral ship that comes to get sinners, all right?
Gatesy: Well, what are they wearing? Is it sort of a leather thing with a...
Scod: No! For Christ's sake, will you just focus? Okay. There might be a woman
on it, but it's because she's a sinner. So it's more like, okay, scary, like:
G D
Scod: The woman's a sinner, she's gonna be dragged away...
G Em D
Gatesy: But not before I bone her on the boardwalk till the morning comes!
C G Am Em
Yon: I bought a sentimental card, with flowers and a pink desi-i-ign.
C G
Scod: She'll be torn apart by demons...
D
Gatesy: While she's touching my buns!
Em
Tripod: Ghost Ship!
C D
Yon: A caring environment...
Em
Tripod: Ghost Ship!
C D
Scod: A den of the damned...
Em
Tripod: Ghost Ship!
C D
Gatesy: Overtly sexual...
B
Scod: Murderous!
Yon: Empathy!
Gatesy: Nude!
Scod: Banshees!
Yon: Thoughtful!
Gatesy: ... Arse!
Em
Tripod: Ghost Ship!
Gatesy: Yeah! Give it to me!
Scod: You guys suck!
Yon: Yeah!
Scod: You're just encouraging him, don't!