Sweet Thames Flow Softly chords by The Dubliners
Verse 1
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I met my
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girl at Woolwich pier.
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Beneath a big crane standin'.
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And all the love I felt for her.
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It passed all understandin'.
Verse 2
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Took her sailin' on the river.
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Flow, sweet river, flow.
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Londontown was mine to give her.
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Sweet Thames, flow softly.
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Verse 3
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Thames into a crown.
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Flow, sweet river, flow.
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Made a brooch of that silver town.
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Sweet Thames, flow softly.
Verse 4
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At London Yard I held her hand.
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At Blackwall Point I faced her.
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At the Isle of Dogs I kissed her mouth.
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And tenderly embraced her.
Verse 5
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Heard the bells of Greenwich ringin'.
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Flow, sweet river, flow.
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All that time my heart was singin'.
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Sweet Thames, flow softly.
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Limehouse
Verse 6
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Reach I gave her there.
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Flow, sweet river, flow.
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As a ribbon for her hair.
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Sweet Thames, flow softly
Verse 7
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From Shadwell Dock to Nine Elms Reach.
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We cheek to cheek were dancin'.
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Her necklace made of London Bridge.
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Her beauty was enhancin'.
Verse 8
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Kissed her once again at Wapping.
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Flow, sweet river, flow.
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After that there was no stoppin'.
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Sweet Thames, flow softly.
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Richmond
Verse 9
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Park it was her ring.
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Flow, sweet river, flow.
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I'd have given her any thing.
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Sweet Thames, flow softly.
Verse 10
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From Rotherhithe to Putney Bridge.
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My love I was declarin'.
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And she from Queue to Islewood.
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Her love for me was swearin'.
Verse 11
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Love had set my heart a- burnin'.
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Flow, sweet river, flow.
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Never saw the tide was turnin'.
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Sweet Thames, flow softly.
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Gave her
Verse 12
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Hampton Court to twist.
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Flow, sweet river, flow.
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Into a bracelet for her wrist.
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Sweet Thames, flow softly.
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And
Verse 13
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now, alas, the tide has changed.
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My love she has gone from me.
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And the winter's frost has
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touched my heart.
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And left its blight upon me.
Verse 14
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Creepin' fog is on the river.
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Flow, sweet river, flow.
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Sun and moon and stars gone with her.
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Sweet Thames, flow softly.
Verse 15
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Swift the Thames flows to the sea.
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Flow, sweet river, flow.
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Bearin' ships and part of me.
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Sweet Thames, flow softly.
Sweet Thames Flow Softly
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