Key: B major•
Verse 1
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B
There was an apprentice
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B
F#
B
lived in Strawberry Lane
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F#
She was loved by her mas ter
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Until a young sailor
G#m
B
C#m
F#
B
And that was the start of her misery.
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F#
B
she thought it no harm
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F#
For to go into bed,
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He hugged her and he kissed her,
G#m
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E
Saying, I wish that this night
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B
were as long as a year.
It was early next morning,
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F#
B
this sailor arose,
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F#
And into her apron he put
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Saying, take this and keep it
G#m
B
C#m
E
For this night I may have left you
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B
With a daughter or a son
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E
And if he'd be a girl child,
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F#
And if he'd be a male child,
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And when he's a man,
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E
And he'll skip up the rigging
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B
like his daddy used to do
And it's home, boys, home,
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B
and it's home I'd like to be
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It's home for a while
in my own country
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E
F#
Where the oak and the ash
G#m
B
E
They are all a -growin' green
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B
in my own country
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsF# B E G#m C#m
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