Rockin' The Cradle chords by David Hammond, The Clancy Brothers

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Verse 1
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It was the other night, dear,
I chanced to go roving
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Down by the clear river I jogged along
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I heard an old man
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making sad lamentation
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About rockin' the cradle
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and the child not his own
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Hey ho, hey ho, my laddy Li sey
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For perhaps your own dada
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will never be known
For it's seeing and sighing
and rockin' the cradle
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And nursing the baby
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that's none of my own.
She goes out every night
to a ball or a kelly,
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And she leaves me here
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rockin' the creddle alone.
And I'll buy the law, if ever you marry,
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They'll leave you here
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rockin' the creddle alone
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Hey ho, hey ho, my laddy Lisey
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For perhaps your own dadda
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will never be known
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For sin and sighing
and rockin' the creddle
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And nursing the baby
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in the child not his own
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Come all you young men
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that's inclined to get married
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Now take my advice
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and let women alone
For by the law,
Harry, if ever you marry
They'll leave you here
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rocking the cradle alone
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Hey -ho, hey -ho, my laddy Lisey
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For perhaps your own dada
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will never be known
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For singing and sighing
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and rocking  the cradle
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And nursing the baby
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that's none of my own