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