The Butcher Boy chords by The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem

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Verse 1

In London city where I did dwell

A butcher boy, I loved right well

He courted me, my life away

But now with me, he will not stay

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

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Verse 3

baby it was born

And smiling on its daddy's knee

And me poor girl to be dead and gone

With the long green grass

growing over me

She went upstairs

Verse 4

to go to bed

And calling to her mother said

"Give me a chair 'til I sit down

And a pen and ink 'til I write down"

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

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