Jorge Rivera-Herrans - Full Speed Ahead

[Intro]
Cm Bb Ab
Cm Bb Ab
Fm9 Bb/G Ab
Fm9 Bb/G Ab

[ODYSSEUS, (SOLDIERS)]
Cm Bb
Six hundred men, six hundred men under my
Ab
command, with only one goal in mind
N.C.
(Make it back alive to our homeland)
Cm Bb Ab
Six hundred men, six hundred miles of open sea

But the problem’s not the distance
N.C.
(It’s what lies in between)
Fm9
And Ithaca’s waiting (Ithaca’s waiting)
Bb/G
My kingdom is waiting (The kingdom is waiting)
Ab Bb
Penelope’s waiting for me
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So full speed ahead
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Full speed ahead

[EURYLOCHUS, (SOLDIERS)]
Fm9 Bb/G
Captain
Ab
(Eurylochus)
Cm
Six hundred men (Six hundred men)
Bb Ab
Six hundred men with big mouths to feed
Fm9
And we’ve run out of supplies to eat
Bb/G Ab Bb
(Curse the war, our food store’s depleted)
Cm
Six hundred men (Six hundred men)
Bb Ab
Six hundred reasons to take what we can

So captain, what’s the plan?
Fm9 Bb/G Ab
(Captain, what’s the plan?)

[ODYSSEUS, (SOLDIERS)]
Bb Fm9
Watch where the birds fly
Bb/G Ab
(Watch where the birds fly)
Bb
They will lead us to land
Bbsus Bb
(They will lead us to land)
Abadd9 Bb
There we’ll hunt for food, my second in command

Now full speed ahead, full speed ahead

[EURYLOCHUS, SOLDIERS]
Cm Bb Ab
We’re up, we’re off, and away we go
Cm Bb Ab
We’re up, we’re off, and away we go
Fm9 Bb/G Ab
We’re up, we’re off, and away we go

[POLITES]
Fm9
Captain

[ODYSSEUS]
Bb/G
Polites!

[POLITES]
Ab
Look!
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There in the distance, I see an island
Cm7
I see a light that faintly glows
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Maybe they’re people lighting a fire

Maybe they’ll share some food, who knows?

[ODYSSEUS]
Abadd9
Something feels off here
Gsus7
I see fire but there’s no smoke

[EURYLOCHUS]
Cm7
I say we strike first, we don’t have time to waste
G7
So let’s raid the place and—

[ODYSSEUS]

No.
Fm9 Bb/G
Polites gear up, you and I’ll go ahead

[POLITES]

(You and I’ll go ahead)

[ODYSSEUS]
Abadd9 Bbadd9
We should try to find a way no one ends up dead

[POLITES]

(We don’t know what’s ahead)

[ODYSSEUS]
Fm9 Bb/G
Give me til sunrise, and if we don’t return.
Abadd9 Bbadd9
Then six hundred men can make this whole place burn

[ODYSSSEUS, (SOLDIERS)]
Fm9 Bb/G
Now full speed ahe-e-e-ad
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Full speed ahe-e-e-ad (Full speed ahead)
Fm9
We’re up, we’re off, and away we go
Bb/G
(We’re up, we’re off, and away we go)
Abadd9
Full speed ahead (We’re up, we’re off, and away we go)
Bbadd9
(We’re up, we’re off, and a—)
C5
Full speed ahead