Key: C major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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met, my old true love
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We've met, we've met, said he
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I've just returned from the salt, salt sea
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And it's all for the love of thee
Verse 2
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King's daughter fair
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She would have married me
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But I've forsaken her crown of gold
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And it's all for the love of thee
Verse 3
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Come in, come in, my old true love
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Come in, she said to him
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Since to gether we have been
Verse 4
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For I have but a moment's time
And they say that you're married
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be mine
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Verse 5
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Oh come with me, said he
And I'll take you to where
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the grass grows green
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On the banks of Bittery
Verse 6
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And kisses she gave it three
Sayin', stay at home my
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darlin' little babe
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pany
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Verse 7
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Then he jumped on a milk white steppe
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And her on a dapple grey
They rode until they came
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to the banks of a sea
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Three hours before the break of day
Verse 8
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They had not been on the ship two weeks
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I'm sure it was not three
Until his true love began to
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weep and to mourn
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And she wept most bit terly
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Verse 9
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Oh, is it for my silver you weep?
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Is it for my store?
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Or is it for that house carpenter
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Whose face you'll never see no more?
Verse 10
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It's neither for you silver I weep
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And neither for your store
But it's all for the sake of my
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sweet little babe
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Verse 11
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Then a curse, a curse to the sailor she cried
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A curse, a curse, she swore
You've robbed me of my
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house carpenter
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Whose face I'll never see no more
Verse 12
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ship three weeks
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I'm sure it was not four
Till they sprang a leak in the
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bottom of the ship
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And it sunk for to rise no more
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