Chorus:   
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Some of us sailors call her home   
  
She's big and she's strong and she's mighty   
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Some of us sailors call her our own   
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Guess that's the reason why   
                    C   Am  
I treat her like a lady   
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Just treat her like a la -- dy   
  
     C  
Now I don't like the sound of the ground movin' 'round   
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Or winds spinnin' out of control   
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California earthquakes, only seem to make a' me   
                    C  
Shake, rattle, and roll   
  
I've been too long on the mainland   
Hotels, rental cars, and phones   
Time to cast 'em aside, catch the very next tide   
And go back, where I belong   
  
Chorus:   
Some of us sailors call her home   
She's big and she's strong and she's mighty   
Some of us sailors call her our own   
Guess that's the reason why   
I treat her like a lady   
Treat her like a lady   
  
Now great whales travel the rhumb lines   
Dodging those deadly harpoons   
Spawning their young, as their ancestors done   
In the depths of her hidden lagoons   
  
There're times I find myself with them   
And times I feel as they do   
We're on a similar course, it's just a different source   
But I'm in danger of extinction too   
  
Chorus:   
Some of us sailors call her home   
She's big and she's strong and she's mighty   
Some of us sailors call her our own   
Guess that's the reason why   
I treat her like a lady   
Treat her like a lady   
Treat her like a lady   
Treat her like a lady   
  
And miss her when I'm gone   
  
(Lady, lady) treat her like a lady   
(Lady, lady) treat her like a lady   
(Lady, lady) got to treat her like a lady   
(Lady, lady) treat her like a lady   
Lady, lady   
Lady, lady   
Lady, lady