intro :
F C G F C
Dm C G C

C Am
well he’s a big star now

F G C
but i’ve been a fan of his for years
C ( * ) F
the way he sings and plays guitar

G C
still brings me to tears

i wouldn’t want to be a big deal
i wouldn’t want to be a celebrity
> i spend my life building ships of steel
> that’s all there ever was for me
>
> take a hammer to the sea belles
> and shout my name
> and i’ll sail the seas as free as a breeze
> that’s my claim to fame
>
> he spends his life in the studio
> jet planes and big black cars
> plays records on the radio
> in all of the clubs and in all of the bars
>
> by day he didn’t have a choice
> you had to take a trade
> you had no money and you had no voice
> that’s the life i made
>
> take a hammer to the sea belles
> and shout my name
> and i’ll sail the seas as free as a breeze
> that’s my claim to fame
>
> that’s my claim to fame boys
> that’s my claim to fame
> to sail the seas as free as a breeze
> that’s my claim to fame

la , la . . . . : same as intro

solo : same as verse
>
> well a song can live forever and a day
> an old ship goes to the breakers yard
> in a hundred years you’re gonna hear him play
> they won’t remember me for working hard
>
> now they’ve all gone away , all the boys and the girls
> they yard is a grave where the river runs through
> we used to build the ships for the whole wide world
> now we couldn’t do it if we wanted to
>
> take a hammer to the sea belles
> and shout my name
> i’ll sail the seas as free as a breeze
> that’s my claim to fame
>
> take a hammer to the sea belles
> and shout my name
> i’ll sail the seas as free as a breeze
> that’s my claim to fame
>
> that’s my claim to fame boys
> that’s my claim to fame
> to sail the seas as free as a breeze
> that’s my claim to fame