Key: Db major
Verse 1
Gm
F
Or can you play at a ball, a ball
Or can you play at ball?
Said John to Willie, I can't throw a stone
Mary Greenwood
G
Gm
C
I'll try you a wrestle and fall fall
F
G
F
I'll try you a slum for when I got down to young Mary
C
F
Eb
Greenwood beneath the spreading moon
F
a dirk fell out of William's pooch which gave John is deadly wound,
wound,
G
F
which gave John his deadly wound.
You can take off your white holland shirt,
G
Eb
and tear it gore by gore,
G
F
and they will blood no more.
He's ta 'en off his little Holland shirt,
C
Eb
C
and he's tore it gore by gore,
G
F
but they bled ten times more, more,
C
G
F
but they bled ten times more. home.
What will I tell to your father, dear,
C
Eb
this night as I go home?
C
F
C
bring home home
F
G
F
and the good books I'll bring home.
What will I tell to your sweetheart dear
C
F
this night as I go home?
Tell her I'm away to a London school,
G
Am
G
and the good scholar I'll
C
F
come home, home,
G
F
G
I'll come home.
dear,
C
G
this night as I go home?
F
F
Tell her I am dead
Am
G
F
and in my grave laid
G
Am
G
C
Am
For she's prayed I might ne 'er come home,
F
home
F
Am
ne 'er come home you
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsF C Gm G Eb...
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