Key: Bb major
Intro 1
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D
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Verse 1
have you seen the master
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G
like he's going to leave the place.
C
G
He's seen the smoke way up the river
where the Lincoln gunboats lay.
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G
He took his hat and he left very sudden
D
G
and I suspect he's run away.
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D
the dark is day, ho, ho, ho, ho.
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coming in the year of Ju bilaw.
He's six foot one way,
two feet t 'other
he couldn't pay the tailor,
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and it won't go halfway round.
fool them Yankees
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for to think he's contraband.
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D
the darkies stay home.
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will come in the year of Jubalore.
The darkies get so lonesome
to the Mass's parlour -board
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to keep them while he's gone.
C
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There's wine and cider in the kitchen
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when the Lincoln soldiers come.
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D
dee -dah, dee -say -ho -ho,
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am I comin' in the year of Ju bilaw.
The overseer made us trouble
smokehouse cellar
D
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with the key thrown in the well.
C
G
The whip is lost, the handcuffs broke,
he ought to know better than
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G
to go and run away.
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D
Deep dark he stay, ho, ho, ho, ho!
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