Key: G major
Verse 1
C
D
G
D
G
In London city where I did dwell
C
Am
D
A butcher boy, I loved right well
Em
Am
He courted me, my life away
D
G
But now with me, he will not stay
Verse 2
D
G
I wish, I wish, I wish in vain
C
Am
D
I wish I was a maid again
Em
Am
A maid again I ne'er will be
D
G
'Til cherries grow on an apple tree
Verse 3
C
D
And smiling on its daddy's knee
Em
Am
And me poor girl to be dead and gone
Verse 4
C
Am
D
And calling to her mother said
G
D
Am
"Give me a chair 'til I sit down
D
G
D
And a pen and ink 'til I write down"
Verse 5
G
C
Am
D
At every word she dropped a tear
And at every line cried "Willie dear
Em
Am
Oh, what a foolish girl was I
D
G
To be led astray by a butcher boy"
Verse 6
D
G
He went upstairs and the door he broke
C
D
He found her hanging from a rope
Em
Am
He took his knife and he cut her down
D
G
And in her pocket, these words he found
Verse 7
C
Am
D
Put a marble stone at my head and feet
Em
Am
And in the middle, a turtle dove
D
G
That the world may know, that I died for love
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