Key: E major
Verse 1
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B
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Johnny Todd he took a notion
E
For to cross the ocean wide
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B
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And he left his love behind him
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Walkin' down by the Liv erpool tide.
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Verse 2
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B
F#
For a week she wept full sorrows
E
Tore her hair and wrung her hands
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B
F#
Till she met another sailor
Walkin' down by the Liv
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erpool sands.
Verse 3
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B
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Why fair maid are you a- weeping
E
For your Johnny gone to sea?
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B
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If you wed with me tomorrow
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I'll be by you constantly.
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Verse 4
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B
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I will buy you clothes and blankets
E
I'll buy you a wedding ring.
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B
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You shall have a gilded cradle
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For to rock you baby in.
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Verse 5
B
Johnny Todd came home
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from sailin'
E
Sailin' on that ocean wide
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B
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And he found his fair and false one
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Was another sailor's bride.
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Verse 6
B
Now, all you men who go a- sailing
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E
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For to fight the foreign foe.
Never leave, never leave
B
F#
love like Johnny
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F#
Marry her before you go.
Outro 1
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B
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E
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B
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C#
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