Key: A major
Verse 1
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C
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On the morning i was born
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John Joe Reilly killed a bird with a stone
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Not a goose, or a hen
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C
John Joe Reilly killed a wren
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John Joe Reilly killed a wren
Twenty- one,
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the longest night in winter
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When the sun is deepest in her slumber
Follow me around the moon
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C
Meet me on the twenty- first of June
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Meet me on the twenty- first on June
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Marry me 'neath the king of
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the trees
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Below the oak Joe Reilly spoke to me
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I was then still green and thin
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My daddy hunted him
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My daddy hunted him
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Now in the sea, there lives a million fishes
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And in the sky,
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there lives a million wishes
One of mine
Is that someday someone'd name
a horse Seabiscuit
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C
Me and I, we'd ride into the mystic
Me and I, we'd ride into
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the mystic
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I followed him into the tree
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I gave my heart and all of me
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Don't tell a soul, John Joe,
where'd you been
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C
Or a soul that i have sinned
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Or a soul that i have sinned
If i'd had known, i'd have
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cut your tongue
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Now the world knows of what i've done
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The oak, the ash,
the king and queen
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The highest shame hang
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s over me
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The highest shame hangs over me
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So bury me beneath the queen
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Below the ash with the birds and the bee
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Re- sow us back into the green
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C
island bouncing on the sea
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Island bouncing on the sea
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On the morning i was born
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John Joe Reilly killed a bird
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with a stone
C
Not a goose or a hen
G
C
John Joe Reilly killed a wren
G
John Joe Reilly killed a wren
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