Key: E major
Verse 1
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G
C
Johnny Toddy
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C
took an ocean to go
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Across the ocean wide
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D
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And he left his love behind him
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G
Weeping on the Liverpool side
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Weeping on the Liverpool side
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For one week she wept so sorely,
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tore her hair and wrung her hands
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Till she met another sailor
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walking on the Liverpool sands
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Walking on the Liverpool sands
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Why fair maid, are you a -weeping
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for your Johnny gone to sea?
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If you wed with me tomorrow,
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I will kind and constant be
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I will kind and constant be
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I will buy you sheets and blankets,
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I'll buy you a wedding ring
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You shall have a gilded cradle,
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or to rock your baby in
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For to rock your baby in
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Johnny Todd came home from sailing
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Sailing all the ocean wide
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For to find his fair and false one
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Was another sailor's bride
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Was another sailor's bride
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So all young men who go a -sailing
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For to fight the foreign foe
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Never leave your love like Johnny
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Marry her before you go
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