Key: D major
Verse 1
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As we were gone sailing
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five cold frosty nights,
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Five cold frosty nights and four days,
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Before we did spy there a lofty tall ship,
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She come bearing down on us,
Verse 2
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you lofty tall ship?
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For I have turned robbing
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all on the salt sea
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To maintain my two
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brothers and I."
Verse 3
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and let go your main sheets
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And I will take from you your rich merchant's goods,
merchant's goods,
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And I'll point your bow
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guns to the sea."
Verse 4
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nor let go my main sheets
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Nor you will take from me my rich merchant's goods,
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merchant's goods,
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Nor you'll point my bow
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guns to the sea."
Verse 5
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these vessels they went,
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Till Henry Martin gave to
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her a broadside
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And she sank and she never rose more.
Verse 6
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sad news I've to tell,
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Of a lofty tall ship and she's cast away
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And the whole of her merry men drowned.
Outro 1
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsD A G C
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