Key: D major•
Verse 1
D
G
A
D
I had a first cousin
called Arthur McBride
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D
He and I took a stroll
Em
G
down by the seaside
and what might betide
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D
G
And after resting we both took a tramp
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G
D
Em
We met Sergeant Harper in Corporal Cramp
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D
Besides the wee drummer
who beat up our camp
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D
G
in the mornin'
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He said, me young fellows, if you will enlist
G
D
Em
A guinea you quickly will have in your fist
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D
Besides a crown for to kick up the dust
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D
Had we been such fools
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D
The wee bit of morn we
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had to run chance,
to send us to France,
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G
in the mornin'.
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He said, me young fellows,
if I hear but one word,
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Em
G
I instantly now will outwith my sword,
D
A
D
And into your bodies a strength will af ford,
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But Ar thur and I,
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we took in the odds.
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D
We gave them no chance
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for to launch out their swords,
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D
over their heads,
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A
in the morning.
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G
A
D
As for the wee drummer,
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we rifled his pouch,
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And we made a football
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And into the ocean to rock and to row,
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As for the old rapier that
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A
hung by his side,
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D
We flung it as far as we
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G
could in the tide,
Arthur MacBride,
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D
G
To temper your steel in the morning. you
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsD G A Em
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