The Nightingale chords by
Frankie Armstrong
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Key: F major

Verse 1
Em Em 
 
A A 
 
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
Bm Bm 
 
D D 
 
My love
A A 
 
he was a rich farmer's son
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
When first my tender heart he won
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
His love to me, oh, he did reveal,
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
D D 
 
But little thought of the nightingale.
A A 
 
His cruel parents contrived it so,
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
That my true love to the seas must go.
D D 
 
They bribed the press gang,
Em Em 
 
who did not fail,
D D 
 
To press my love on the nightingale.
The nightingale was a vessel stout,
Well manned, well decked,
Em Em 
 
and well finished out,
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
With thirty guns, oh, the truth I'll tell,
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
D D 
 
But mark the fate of the nightingale.
A A 
 
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
Bm Bm 
 
D D 
 
On the fourteenth day of November last,
Em Em 
 
The wind blew a bitter blast.
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
It blew my love in a dreadful gale,
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
D D 
 
And to the bottom went the nightingale.
A A 
 
The very night that my love got lost,
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
There appeared to me his deadly ghost.
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
In sailor's clothing his visage pale,
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
Those clothes he wore on
D D 
 
the nightingale.
Oh lovely Marlene, I see surprise,
Em Em 
 
In Biscay Bay my body lies,
D D 
 
To become prey to some shark or whale,
It was my fate, I'm the nightingale.
you

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TunerE A D G B E

ChordsEm A D Bm

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