Key: F minor•
Verse 1
Fm
Gm
Oh, what's the matter with you, my lass,
Gm
Cm
The soldier boys have picked him up and sent him far,
Gm
Am
far from me.
Gm
Cm
Gm
Last pay day he went off to town
Fm
Cm
and them red- coated fellows
Fm
Enticed him in and made him drunk—and he'd
Gm
Fm
be better gone to the gallows.
Ab
Fm
The very sight
Verse 2
Ab
Gm
Ab
Gm
And me! I nearly fainted twice,
Cm
Bbm
I thought that I was dying.
Gm
Cm
Gm
My father would have paid the smart
Fm
Gm
But the ser geant swore he'd kissed the book,
F
Fm
Ab
so now they've got young Jimmy.
Fm
When Jimmy
Verse 3
Bb
Gm
Fm
it's worse than death to hear him.
Bb
Fm
Bbm
Cm
I must go out and hide my tears
Gm
Cm
Gm
A brigadeer or grenadier
Gm
Cm
But aye, he gibes and cracks his jokes
Gm
Fm
Bbm
and begs me not forsake him.
Verse 4
Cm
Bb
Cm
As I walked o'er the stubble field
Gm
Bbm
F
Cm
below it runs the seam,
Bb
F
Gm
I thought o' Jimmy hewing there
Fm
Cm
Bb
but it was all a dream.
Cm
Bbm
Bb
Gm
He hewed the very coals we burn
F
Fm
Cm
To think the lumps was in his hands,
Bb
F
it sets my heart a- beating.
Fm
Gm
Cm
Bb
So break my heart and then it's
Verse 5
Bbm
o'er,
Eb
Cm
so break my heart, my dearie.
Fm
Gm
For I'll lie in the cold green ground
for of single life I'm weary.
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