Key: D major
Verse 1
D
C
G
D
It was a good
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D
Friday morning
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May
A
German ship was signalling
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G
A
Beyond out in the bay
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D
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A
With 20 ,000 rifles already far to land
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D
from their lonely valestrand
No signal, answers from the shore
Sir
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D
Roger sadly said
No comrades here to welcome me
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G
A
Alas, they must be dead
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D
But I must do my duty,
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A
and at once I mean to land
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A
D
So in a small boat pulled ashore,
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D
on the lonely balustrade
Now the
R .I .C. were hunting for
Sir
High and
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Low
They found him at
Mackanus
Fort
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G
A
Said, there you are a foe
Roger
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G
A
Casement, I came to my native land,
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D
Bannistrand.
Now they took
Sir
Roger, prisoner,
And in the tower they laid him,
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G
A
A traitor to the crown.
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D
Said he, am no traitor,
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A
but his trial he had to stand
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D
Danestrand
It was in an
English prison that they
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D
led him to his death
I'm dying for my country,
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G
A
he said with his last breath
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A
British soil, far from his native land
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D
on the lonely bandstand
Now they took
Sir
Roger home again
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D
In the year of sixty -five
And with his comrades of sixteen
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A
In peace and tranquillise
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D
His last fond wish, it is fulfilled
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A
For to lie in his native land
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D
Bannistrand
And the waves will roll in peace again
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D
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D
On the lonely banner's throng.
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsD C G A
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