Key: D minor
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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who wished nothing more
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than to live again
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but the bane of his life
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Oh, the jolly captain
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He smoked his long pipe
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He didn't like her much,
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despite her rough tongue
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The way -faced old nine -bagger'd been
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His pretty darling once
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she fractured her neck
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It seems that her spleen
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So the jolly captain carried her to bed
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Close your poor eyes, he said,
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He brought her fresh butter
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Violet and peppermint
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to soothe her heart's bitterness
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From her deathbed she said,
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if you marry when I die
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and with a shudder and a shake
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and went to vex her maker
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Her unhappy captain,
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He closed her wild eyes
and he cried a bit on the Friday
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But he saw no good reason
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So he married an apple -cheeked girl
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on the Saturday
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Alas, jolly captain,
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you're married too soon
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her way up from the grave
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with furious fingernails
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No, said the jolly captain,
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She can scratch, she can scrape
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till she's black in the face
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haunt me and taunt me
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I know, cause I buried her
She's a long way to go
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No, she won't come to
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haunt me and taunt me
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I know, cause I buried her
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