Key: F# minor
Verse 1
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F#m
We came across the ocean for the price of the passage
Came across the ocean for one English pound
We slept in the hay bed
with the sheep and the shit
We slept in the hay,
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me and three boys from our town
Hunger did surround us
Came on like a black sea
Everything it came for,
rotten on the ground Food was had for money
And as we had none
All the world around us
came a tumbling down
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F#m
In a place a foreign man called
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Bm
B
Without home or family
One morning our boy Tommy
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Cold and sick and dying and blue was what we found Before he took his last breath the ships
sailors found him Before he took his last breath they tossed him in to drown
If hunger makes you nothing,
then boy I am nothing
Just another hungry boy
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The lucky boys who did survive the cruel deeds of cruel
men Would live a short and lonely life in a foreign land
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F#m
In a place a foreign man called
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsF#m F# F#sus4 D B...
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