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CHORUS:
C                     F                      G
Barges, I would like to go with you,
C          F        C   G   C
I would like to sail the ocean blue.
C                        F                        G
Barges, have you treasures in your hold?
C              F        C       G     C
Do you fight with pirates brave and bold?

1. Out of my window looking in the night
   I can see the barge’s flickering light.
   Starboard shining green and port is glowing red,
   I can see the barges from my bed.
2. Silently flows the river to the sea
   As the barges do go silently.

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Notes

There are lots of stories that follow this song. Our “myth” is of a little girl dying of cancer who wrote this song while looking out her hospital window. The second verse is incomplete because she died before finishing it.

Another story I found was of a jewish girl/boy confined in one of the safe houses in Holland. The treasure was other Jews escaping from Holland and the Pirates were the Germans who all too often caught them.

You can find more verses online too but this is how we sing it, usually a cappella.