Key: E major
Verse 1
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Oh, the shanty man's
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void of care
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Swinging an axe from morning to night
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In the midst of the forest so drear
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Lying in the shanty, bleak and cold
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While the cold stormy wintry winds blow
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And as soon as the daylight doth appear
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To the wild woods we must go
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Sing hurrah, boys, it's day
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Broken slumbers of t times are past
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As the cold winter night wows away
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As the day is so lonely but mild
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Oh, a glass of any strong
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For to cheer up our troubled minds
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When the waters are pierced and cold
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And our pike poles we scarcely can roll
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shoals and sands give employment to our hands
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Our world made with raft or steer
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And the rapids that we run,
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oh they seem to us but fun
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For we're void of all slavish fee
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Oh, shanty lad is the only lad I love
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I never will deny the same
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Who think it ain't disgraceful name
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So far for surpassing them all
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Until death and death must part,
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He shall enjoy my heart,
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His riches be great or small.
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