Blue Mountain Lake chords by Pete Seeger

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Verse 1
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Come all you bold fellers
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Where'er you may be
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Come set down a-while and
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and listen to me
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The truth I will tell you without a mistake
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Of the rackets we had
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About Blue Mountain Lake
Derry, down, down, down,
derry down

Verse 2
There's the Sullivan brothers and
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Big Jimmy Lou
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Old Mose Gilbert and Dandy Pat too
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As fine lot of fellers as ever you seen
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And we all worked for
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Griffith on township nineteen
Derry, down, down, down,
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derry, down
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Bill Mitchell, you know, he kept our shanty
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And as mean a damn man
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as you ever did see
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He'd lay round the shanty
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From morning till night
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And, if a man said a word
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He was ready to fight
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Derry, down, down, down, derry down
Derry, down, down, down,

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Verse 3
derry down
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One morning 'fore daylight Jim Lou
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He got mad knocked hell out
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of Mitchell and
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The boys was all glad
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His wife, she just stood there, and
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The truth I will tell
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She was tickled to death to
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See Mitchell catch hell
Derry, down, down, down,
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derry down
Derry, down, down, down,
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derry down

Verse 4
Old Griffith he stood here
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The crabby old Drake
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And a hand in the racket
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We thought he would ake
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But a couple of the boys
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Come and took him away
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"Becripes" said old Griffith
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"I've nothing to say"
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Derry, down, down, down, derry down

Verse 5
Derry, down, down, down, derry down
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You can talk of your fashions
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And styles to be seen
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But there's none like Nellie
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The cook of nineteen
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She's short,
thick and stout
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Without a mistake
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And we all call her Nellie
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The belle of Long Lake
Derry, down, down, down, derry down
Derry, down, down,
down, derry down
Well, my song's about over,
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adieu to you all
Christmas is coming and I'm
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Going to Glens Falls and, when I get there
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I'll go out on a spree
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"Cause when I get drunk, boys
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The devil's in me
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Derry, down, down, down, derry down
Derry, down, down, down, derry down