The Ploughboy chords by The Watersons

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Verse 1
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Wel, I once was a merry plough boy,
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I was a ploughin' the fields all day,
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Till a very funny thought came to me,
And that I should roam away,
For I'm tired of me country life,
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Since the day that I was born,
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So I'll go and join the army,
and I'm up tomorrow morn.
Hurrah for the khaki and the blue
Helmets glittering in the sun
Minutes flash like lightning
through
The beating of the military drum
And no more will I go harvesting
Or gathering the golden corn
Gos I got the good King's shillin'
and I'm off tomorrow morn.
Well I'll leave aside me pick
and my spade
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and I'll leave aside me plough
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An d I'll leave aside me old grey meff
and the moor I'll need her now
For there's a little spot in England
Up in the Yorkshire and dale so high
Where we must a good king stand
It's saying we'll conquer
or we'll die
Hurrah for the khaki and the blue
Helmets glittering in the sun
Then it's flash like lightning
To the beating of the military drum
And no more will I go harvesting
or gathering the golden corn,
Cos I've got the good king shilling
and I'm off tomorrow morn.
But there's one little
thing I must tell you
about a girl I leave behind,
And I know she will prove true to me,
and I'll prove true in kind.
And if ever I return again
to my home in the country,
I'll take her to the church
to wed
and the sergeant's wife she'll be.
Hurrah for the khaki and the blue
Helmets glittering in the sun
Then it's flash like lightning
To the beating of the military drum
And no more will I go harvesting
Or gathering the golden corn
Cos I've got the good King's chilling
And I'm off tomorrow morn