Key: Ab major•
Verse 1
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C
I am a young fel
In
Castletown,
In
Newcastle
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Ab
West I spent many an oath
With
Kitty and
Judy and
Mary
for being such a rake
And for spending me time
the good nature of
Jane,
Yer a fog o' my jude, mar a thashe.
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Ab
My parents had reared me
to shake and to mow,
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Me heart been too airy to drop it too low, I
set down on a high speculation.
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Ab
On paper and parchment
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C
they taught me to write,
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And in
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And in multiplication, in truth, I was bright,
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Db
yet a foggum would shoot my repose.
Rathkeel, the girdles all around
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C
me do flock on the square.
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Now some offer me apples, and others sweet cake, and they
There's one from
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Ab
Though being from the mountains, her stockings are white,
and I'd love to be tightening
her girthers.
ne 'er was inclined,
they must leave
But I'll purchase a cow that'll never run dry,
Ab
And I'll milk her be twistin' or hardin'.
John
Shrone had plenty of gold,
And
Lord
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But should they're laid on their backs amidst nettles and stones,
The old cow could be milked without clover or grass,
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Dm
She'd be pampered on barley,
sweet corn, and the hops.
She'd be warm, she'd be stout,
And she'd milk without spence
and her halter.
And the man that would drink, he'd eat
And the feeble old hag,
shade.
there's some say I'm wise,
Though being fond of the women, I think,
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Ab
Sure, the son of
King
David, he had ten thousand wives,
And his wisdom was highly regarded.
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I'll till a good garden and work at my ease,
If there'd be war in the cabin themselves,
Fm
Ab
they could blame you if
Fogham would shoot
Horshay.
But now for the future, I think I'll get wise and
I'll marry all those women who acted
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so kind.
Aye, I'd marry them all on the morrow by -and
-by if the clergy'd agree to the bargain.
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Db
And then when I'd be old and me soul be at rest,
could keen at me wake.
Aye, they'd all gather
round, and they'd offer up prayers
To the
Lord for the soul of their father.
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