threelegsoman's video: Guitar: Cumberland and the Merrimac Including lyrics and chords

This song comes as a request from subscriber, Jack Carter. Set during the American Civil War, it describes a naval battle between the Union frigate, The Cumberland and the Confederate steam ship Merrimac. Merrimac, or more correctly, Merrimack, had originally been a Union frigate which had been sunk. Her hull was raised and she was converted, by the Confederacy, into an iron-clad steam powered ship and renamed Virginia. Virginia was driven by screws and was faster and more maneuverable than the sailing frigate, Cumberland and with iron-clad superstructure impervious to the cannon fire of the Union ship. Virginia rammed Cumberland and sank her when her captain refused to surrender his ship. The chord progression I am using is of my own devising.