Key: Bb minor•
Verse 1
you now see me rinsing your glasses
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and I'll make a fresh bed up for you
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F
Eb
An d you'll tip me a few pennies
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F
and I'll thank you very well
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Dbm
An d you'll see me dressed in tatties
in this tatty old hotel
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And you cannot tell who stands before you
stands before you
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But one of these evenings
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E
there'll be shrieks in the harbour
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E
And the last coup they held
would shriek like that
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F
got to smile about
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Am
E
An d a ship with eight sails
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F
And its fifty guns loaded
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C
B
A
E
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Will tie up at dusk
They say, on with your glasses, my dear,
And their penny is accepted,
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although nobody will
get much chance
of sleeping tonight.
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F#m
And they still can't tell who I might be.
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And they still can't tell who I might be.
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B
But one of these evenings
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out the window
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F
An d they'll say,
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what's caused that vicious grin?
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E
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E
And the ship, with eight sails
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And its fifty guns loaded
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C
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E
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Will lay siege to the town
Gentlemen, you'll find that your
laughs are cut short
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F
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An d the town will be quickly
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Just one tatiote hotel
will be left standing safe and sound
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cial live in that
live in that
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Gbm
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Then there'll be a lot of people
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Bbm
mealing round the hotel asking what
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E
made them leave the place alone
don't tell us she's the one
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Am
And the ship
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F
And its fifty guns loaded
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C
B
A
E
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And a hundred men will land
in the bright noonday sun
Each treading where
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Cm
the shadows cloak him
They'll look inside each doorway
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Cm
G
and sees anyone they see
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And throw him an irons and present him to
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G
And say, give us the word
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an d we'll croak him
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An d say, give us the word
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F#
and we'll croak him
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B
In that noonday heat
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E
there'll be a hush
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B
C#m
From the harbor as they ask
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Which I want to die
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E
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An d then they'll hear me
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B
quietly answer,
The Lord.
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Am
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I'll say, And I ship with eight sails,
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F
and it's fifty guns loaded.
We'll sail off with the wind
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsBbm Cb F Eb Gb...
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