Blackwater Side chords by Peta Webb

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Verse 1
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One morning fair as I roved out,
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All down by Blackwater's side,
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In gaz ing all around me,
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the Irish girl  I spied.
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All red and rosy were her cheeks,
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an  d coal black was her hair.
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All around her waist
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was a sash like gold
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That my Irish girl did wear
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I took her by the milk -white hand
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and I viewed her o 'er and o 'er.
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I asked her in  to my bedroom
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for to spend an hour or more she said kind sir
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I am too young for to go with such as you well
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the younger you be sure the better for me
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I can never prove falsely kind
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so in all the first part of the night
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we lay in sport and play
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and in the last part of the night,
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she in my  arm   s did lay,
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till this young man arose and
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gathered his clothes,
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saying fare you well my dear.
Ah, but that's not the promise
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that you made me all down by
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Blackwater side.
The promise I made I'll never forget.
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I was never intend to  keep.
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I   was never intent for to marry a girl
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with her hair tossed about like you.
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Go home, go home to
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your mommy.
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Go home an  d cry a fill,
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for it's when
And fishes will fly,
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and the seas run dry,
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Sure it's then that I'll
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marry you. you