Key: F major
Intro 1
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G
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Verse 1
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out of Boston in 1769
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to work on the factory line
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I worked till I was sick
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Sewer took me out of Boston in 1769
I had no work, no money,
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no place to settle down
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With the mark of God upon me,
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Three advocates spoke for me,
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Cause I had no work, no money,
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no place to settle down
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Swing low, boys, let it go, boys
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Swing low, boys, let it go
Old Davy was a devon man,
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You may be a slave in America
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or in Barbados, meet that fate
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Is to sin against mankind
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and cast all England in that sin
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and he stepped up to the plate
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Swing low, boys, let it go, boys
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Swing low, boys, let it go
To breathe the air of England
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For no kind of law, for rich or poor,
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for sanctioned slavery
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and to free them makes no sense
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To breathe the air of England,
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at first you must be free
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The breath of England's pure
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The breath of England's sweet
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Look to some foreign shore
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Jerusalem's defeat
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My name,
it is James Somerset,
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and I am a free man
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Taken from the ones I loved,
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where love was shown to me
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My name, it is James Somerset,
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and I am a free man
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Swing low, boys, let it go, boys
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Swing low, boys, let it go
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Swing low, boys, let it go, boys
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Swing low, boys, let it go
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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
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