Key: D minor
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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In London so fair a lady she lived there,
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Csus4
And unto this lady fair I
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And in me she took a great de light.
Verse 2
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wealth and beauty born,
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And he became a sailor on the sea,
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An d then he was bound for the sea.
Verse 3
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And the tears from her eye
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ing away so far from me to stray,
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And to leave me on the shores
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for to mourn."
Verse 4
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"Oh no, no", says he,
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"such things can never be,
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For as long as I'm a sailor on the sea,
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will never reach dry land,
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love, unto thee."
Verse 5
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that hung down her back so fair,
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For fear that any body would her know,
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And straight to the captain she did go.
Verse 6
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in every limb,
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And the clothes fitted tightly
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captain to her says,
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ever on the sea?"
Verse 7
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"I was nev er on the sea,
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But ship me as a young sailor bold,
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To purchase some sil
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ver and some gold."
Verse 8
cabin where he lay,
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And the tears from his
eyes they did flow,
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Saying, "You're like a lover of mine
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that I think on many's the time,
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That I left on the shores for to mourn."
Verse 9
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"Oh no, no", says she,
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"such things can never be,
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For as long as I'm a sailor on the sea,
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The ship that I command
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On the day that I prove false, love,
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unto thee."
Verse 10
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So into her arms flew like a dove,
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Saying, "Do not shed a tear
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it's married we will be."
Verse 11
clerk,
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they sent for a mate,
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An d now they're living happy on the sea.
Outro 1
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