The Butcher Boy chords by
The Clancy Brothers And Tommy Makem

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Key: G major

Verse 1

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In London city where I did dwell

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A butcher boy, I loved right well

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He courted me, my life away

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But now with me, he will not stay

Verse 2
D D 
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G G 
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I wish, I wish, I wish in vain
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Am Am 
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D D 
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I wish I was a maid again
Em Em 
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Am Am 
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A maid again I ne'er will be
D D 
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G G 
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'Til cherries grow on an apple tree
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I wish my

Verse 3
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baby it was born
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D D 
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And smiling on its daddy's knee
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Am Am 
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And me poor girl to be dead and gone
D D 
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With the long green grass
G G 
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growing over me
D D 
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She went upstairs

Verse 4

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to go to bed

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And calling to her mother said

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"Give me a chair 'til I sit down

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And a pen and ink 'til I write down"

Verse 5
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C C 
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D D 
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At every word she dropped a tear
And at every line cried "Willie dear
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Am Am 
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Oh, what a foolish girl was I
D D 
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G G 
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To be led astray by a butcher boy"

Verse 6
D D 
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G G 
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He went upstairs and the door he broke
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D D 
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He found her hanging from a rope
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Am Am 
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He took his knife and he cut her down
D D 
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G G 
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And in her pocket, these words he found
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Oh, make my

Verse 7

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grave large, wide and deep

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Put a marble stone at my head and feet

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And in the middle, a turtle dove

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That the world may know, that I died for love

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