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