I'm Your Captain (Closer To Home)

Words & Music:

Grand Funk Railroad

D D(add2) D G [main riff]

Everybody listen to me and return me my ship.

I'm your captain, I'm your captain, though I'm feeling mighty sick.

I've been lost now, days uncounted.

And it's been months since I've seen home.

Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Or am I all alone?

If you return me to my home port, I will kiss you, Mother Earth.

Take me back, now; take me back, now, to the port of my birth.

INSTRUMENTAL VAMP ON MAIN RIFF:

BRIDGE:

Dm Gm

Am I in a cabin, dreaming?

Dm Gm Dm F C A

Or are you really scheming to take my ship away from me?

Dm Gm Dm Gm

You'd better think about it. I just can't live without it.

Dm F C A

So, please don't take my ship from me.

A D D(add2) D G [continue with main riff]

Yeah, Yeah, yeah...

I can feel the hand of a stranger and it's tightening 'round my throat.

Heaven, help me! Heaven, help me! Take this stranger from my boat!

I'm your captain! I'm your captain! Though I'm feeling mighty sick.

Everybody, listen to me and return me my ship.

I'm your captain – yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

D C

I'm getting closer to my home.

[Repeat and out]