False Lover John chords by John Doyle, Karan Casey
Verse 1
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False lover John, he courted me
For every hour in the day.
He courted me to such a degree
That I hadn't a word to say.
It's take you all of your father's gold
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and all of your mother's money
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And steal the keys of
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your father's stable
and thirty steeds and three
And she has stolen her father's gold
and all of her mother's money
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And the keys of her father's stable
and thirty steeds and three
And they have mounted
ten milk -white steeds
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Rode on by the clear silvery
light of the moon
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Until they reached the banks of the river
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And there they did get
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down
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Em
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Lie you down, Miss Mickalene,
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Em
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this night along with me
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For it's here I kill sev
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en kings' daughters,
Em
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the eighth one will be thee
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We'll turn you round,
False John, she said,
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And view the green leaves on the tree,
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It's ill because a learned man,
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Em
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A naked maid, to see.
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False lover Chang, he turned around
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To view the green leaves on the tree
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She threw her arms around his waist
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And flung him into the sea
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It's there you lie, false Chang, she said
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Till death it comes to thee
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For you taught to kill me as I was born
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And take my clothes from me
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Oh, reach in your gentle hand
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And take me to dry land
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F#m
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And every vow that I have made
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I'll double it all in one
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She has mounted her milkwhite steed
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Rode on by the clear silvery light of the
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Until she reached her father's castle,
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unless she did get down
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She put the steed all into the stable,
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the money to where it lay
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And there wasn't a lord
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in all of the castle,
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new make -a -ling was away
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Thank you very much. you
False Lover John
John Doyle, Karan Casey
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