Key: A major
Verse 1
a butcher's hook
Once took from Marshalsea
Hung by the neck by hook or crook
a butcher's hook
Once took from Marshalsea
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Once took from Marshalsea
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and brighten up our day
We'll watch a pirate stretch a rope
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G
and shout aloud hooray
We'll see his progress cross the bridge
and past the tower grain
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G
We'll see it feels quite so rich
and now we will behave
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G
We'll take some pies and a lance too,
we'll sing and we will prance
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C
and watch the marshall
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s dance
and if he does confess
We'll see the chaplain,
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villain, coup,
and puff his little breast
And swear that there's a better life
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And have a care for what they do
and always pay their rent
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so many end up there
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his body will be hung
Three tides will wash his sins away,
and justice will be done
His body will be took away,
or gives the surgeon's fan
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C
We'll have a very merry time
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and watch the marshals dance
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G
Hung by the neck by a cork crook,
a butcher's hook,
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G
once took from Marshal C
Swinging like a chicken from
once took from Marshal's sea
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