Key: C major
Verse 1
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G
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F
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Oh, the sky was
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dark and the clouds advanced
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When a convict came to the
Isle of
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France
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C
And around his leg he
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An d his country was of the
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C
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I am from the shamrock, the convict cried,
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That has been tossed on the ocean wide.
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Am
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For being unruly, I do declare I was
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doomed to transport these seven long years
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When six of them, they were up and past I
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was coming home to make up the last
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When the winds did blow
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And they cast me here on this
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foreign shore
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And then the
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Coast
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Guard he played a part
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And with some brandy he
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Although the night is far ad vanced,
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You shall find a friend on the
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France.
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So he sent a letter all to the
C
Queen
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Concerning the wreck of the
Shamrock
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Green
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And his freedom came
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by a speedy post,
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For the absent convict they
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thought was lost.
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God bless the
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Coast
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Guard, the convict cried
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For he saved my life from the ocean wide
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C
I'll drink his health in a
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C
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flowing glass,
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France.
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