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