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Key: Bb major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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What ails you, my daughter dear?

Your eyes, they look so dim,

Have you had any sore sickness,

Or yet been sleeping with a man?
Verse 2
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No I haven't had any sore sickness,

But I know what's ailing me,
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I am thinking of my own true love
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Who ploughs the raging sea.
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Verse 3
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Is he a Lord or a Duke or a knight
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Or a man of wealth and fame?
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Or is he one of our sailor lads
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Come tell me now his name.
Verse 4
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He is no Lord nor Duke nor knight
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Nor a man of wealth or fame.
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He is one of your sailor lads
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John Bar bour is his name.
Verse 5
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Now if John Barbour is his name,
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A lowly sailor man is he,
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If John Barbour is his name,
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Then hanged he shall be.
Interlude 1
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Then he called his sailors
Verse 6
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all
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By one, by two, by three
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John Barbour was the first he called
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But the last came down was he.
Verse 7
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When he came a dancing down,
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He was clothed all in white
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His cheeks were like the roses red
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And his teeth were ivory bright.
Verse 8
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He paid their wages with a smile
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And to John Barbour he did say
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If I was a woman as I am a man
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My bed fellow you would be.
Verse 9
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And will you marry my
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daughter Jane?
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And take her by the hand
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And will you come and dine with me
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Take charge of all my lands.
Verse 10
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Yes I will marry your daughter Jane
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And take her by the hand
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And I will come and dine with you,
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But to hell with all your land.
Verse 11
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For if you can give her one gold piece,
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Then I can give her three.

For they call me young
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John Bar bour
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And I plough the raging sea.
Outro 1
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