I'm A Freeborn Man chords by John McDermott

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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I'm a free -born man
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of the traveling people
Got no fixed abode, with nomads
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I am numbered
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Country lanes and byways
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were always my ways
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I never fancied being lumbered
In the open ground we would
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stop and linger
For a month or two for time
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was not our master
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Then we'd pack our load
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and head down the road.
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Nice and easy,
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no need to confess.
For we knew the woods
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and the rest in places.
And the small bird sang
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when wintertime was over
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And away I'd jog with old horse and dog
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They were good old
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days for the rover
All you free -born men
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of the travelin' people
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Every tinker rollin' stone
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and gypsy rover
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Winds of change are blowin',
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old ways are goin'
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Your travelin' days will soon
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be over
I'm a free -born man
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of the traveling people
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Got no fixed abode
with nomads,
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I am numbered
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Country lanes and byways
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were always my ways
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I never fancied bein'
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Lombard you