The Butcher Boy chords by The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem
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Verse 1
(C major) (D major) (G major) In (D major) London city where I did dwell (G major)
A (C major) butcher boy, I loved (A minor) right (D major) well
He courted (E minor) me, my life away (A minor)
But now with (D major) me, he will not (G major) stay
Verse 2
I wish, I (D major) wish, I wish in (G major) vain
I (C major) wish I was a (A minor) maid again (D major)
A maid again (E minor) I ne'er will (A minor) be
'Til cherries (D major) grow on an apple (G major) tree
I (D major) wish my
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Verse 3
baby it was (G major) born
And (C major) smiling on its daddy's (D major) knee
And me poor (E minor) girl to be dead and (A minor) gone
With the long green (D major) grass
growing over me (G major)
She (D major) went upstairs
Verse 4
to go to (G major) bed
And (C major) calling to (A minor) her mother (D major) said
"Give me a (G major) chair 'til (D major) I sit (A minor) down
And a pen and (D major) ink 'til I write (G major) down" (D major)
Verse 5
(G major)
At (C major) every word she (A minor) dropped a (D major) tear
And at every line cried "Willie dear
Oh, what a (E minor) foolish girl was (A minor) I
To be led astray (D major) by a butcher (G major) boy"
Verse 6
He went up (D major) stairs and the door he (G major) broke
He (C major) found her hanging from a (D major) rope
He took his (E minor) knife and he cut her (A minor) down
And in her (D major) pocket, these words he (G major) found
Oh, (D major) make my
Verse 7
grave large, wide and (G major) deep
Put a (C major) marble stone (A minor) at my head and (D major) feet
And in the (E minor) middle, a turtle (A minor) dove
That the world may (D major) know, that I died for (G major) love
The Butcher Boy
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem
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