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From: "Andrew Citron" <andycitron@hotmail.com>
Subject: TAB Sit Down You're Rocking the Boat sung by Don Henley
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 1997 13:46:52 PST

                Sit Down You're Rockin' The Boat
                Performed by Don Henley
                Written by Frank Loesser
                From the Movie Soundtrack Leap of Faith
                Transcribed by Andrew P. Citron (citron@vnet.ibm.com)

This version corrects one line... but the earlier versions were 
never posted to olga any way.


8beats each  (raggae beat, guitar on beat 2 & 4)
(guitar)    (add organ) (add guitar solo and drums)        
         ()     ()             (only organ plays )
            
I dreamed last

              
 night, I was 

   
on the boat to

 heaven.
            
By some chance

              
,       I had 


brought my dic

e along.
          
And there I st

            
ood and I holl

           
er someone fad

e
           
But the passen

           
gers they knew

            
 right from wr

   
ong.
             
And the people

            
 said sit down

       ( 
, sit down you

      
're   rockin t

   
he boat.
             
    The people

              
 all said sit 

         (
down, sit down

     
          you'

            
re rockin the 
boat.
            
Cause the devi

              
l will drag yo

            
u under by the

             
 sharp lapels 

        
of your 
checkered coat 
             
    Sit down. 

          
 Sit down.  Si

 (   
t down you're 

         
rockin the boa

t.
     (    
it)

            

     (    

   ( 

   

 
Oooh   Oooh   Oooh (scat)   Oooh   Oooh   Oooh 
            
As I sailed, w

          
ith those pass

engers to heav

en
            
By some chance

            
, I found a bo

ttle in my fis

t.
          
And there I st

            
ood, nicely pa

          
ssing out the 

whiskey 
           
But the passen

           
gers were boun

        
d to resist.
             
And the people

            
 all said sit 

            
down, sit down

            
 you're rockin

     
 the boat.
             
The people all

            
 said sit down

            
, sit down you

            
're rockin the

 
 boat.
                                                                    

Cause the devi

l will drag yo

u under by the

 sharp lapels 

of your 
checkered coat.
             
    Sit down. 

          
 Sit down.  Si

       
t down you're 

rockin the boa

t.
     (    
Oooh   Oooh   

          
Oooh   Oooh   

(     (    
Oooh   Oooh 
            
As we sail, on

      
 that tiny boa

t to heaven
            
Great big wave

  (
, came and was

hed me over bo

ard
          
And as I sank,

            
 oh I hollered

         
 someone save 

me
           
That's the mom

           
ent I woke up,

           
 thank the lor

   
d.
             
And I said to 

            
myself sit dow

            
n, sit down yo

            
u're rockin th

  
e boat. 
(harmony)
             
    I said to 

            
myself sit dow

            
n, sit down yo

            
u're rockin th

  
e boat.
                                                                    

Cause the devi

l will drag yo

u under by the

 sharp lapels 

of your 
checkered coat
             
    Sit down. 

          
 Sit down.  Si

              
t down you're 

         
rockin the boa

t.
             
    Sit down  

            
(Sit down)  Si

              
t down (Sit do

            
wn) sit down y

      
ou're rockin t

he 
boat
    REPEAT, JAM, FADE


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