Key: D major
Intro 1
B
E
B
F#
E
B
Verse 1
E
B
We marched down from Kernstown
E
B
we pulled up and climbed on
E
B
F#
An d we just sat there for a night
and a day
B
F#
and the nights are long
The one of Sweet William,
E
B
his love, Boreal,
E
B
F#
and how she was always a long
B
E
B
F#
ways away
E
B
E
B
My insides are all torn
E
B
from hard tack and parched corn
E
B
My hat flew in a windstorm
E
B
I pulled out your Bible
E
B
Fell fast asleep before
F#
B
one verse was read
B
F#
Better write you every day a humble song
E
B
F#
How she was always a long ways
B
away
Interlude 1
B
E
B
F#
E
B
E
B
F#
B
Verse 2
B
E
B
And I do not drink and gamble
E
B
I thought we might need to
E
B
As we were surrounded
F#
B
and it looked like we were through
The one of sweet William,
E
B
his love, Barbary Ellen
E
B
F#
B
How she was always a long ways away
E
B
F#
B
How she was always a -long ways away
E
B
In Scarlet Town, where I was born
F#
B
There was a fair maid a -dwellin'
B
F#
E
For the love of Barbary Alley
B
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsB E F#
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