Key: Gb major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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hear that I am dying
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And my song, it should be sung
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Just say I lived the way I pleased
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And spoke with a free man's tongue
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So when they fit me to the stone
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and close my grass's cell
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I don't want no crying on my grave,
Verse 2
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And then you can tone the bell easy,
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hmm
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Tone it all around
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they lay my body down
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I said you can tone the bell easy
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Tone the bell easy when they
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lay my body down
Verse 3
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When I was just a cabin boy on the freighter,
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The first mate was a salty dog,
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and this he said to me
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"I'll take the women, wine and song,
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and life will serve me well
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'Cause brother, it will be too late when
Verse 4
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Tone it all around louder
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Tone the bell easy when
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I said you can tone the bell easy
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Tone it all around louder
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Tone the bell easy when they
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lay my body down
Verse 5
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From sea to sea, and pole to pole
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I followed my roving mind
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I spent the gold of a king or two,
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A#m
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and drunk some heavy wine
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And if Heaven, it can't offer me
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the joys I used to know
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Well, I hope they turn the box around,
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and a- sending me down be low
Verse 6
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And then you can tone the bell easy, louder
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Tone it all around, hmm
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I said you're gonna
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tone the bell easy
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Tone it all around louder
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Tone the bell easy when
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they lay my body down
Verse 7
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D
I never could relate
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arms to the hands of cruel fate
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G
But if a young girl passes by and my chest,
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Just roll me down to the burning gates
Verse 8
and a- ring that devil's bell
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And then you can tone the bell easy
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Tone it all around louder
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lay my body down
Tone the bell easy when
Verse 9
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tone the bell easy
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Tone the bell easy when
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they lay my body
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Verse 10
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I said a- tone, tone the bell a- louder,
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louder
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Tone the bell a little more easily
Outro 1
Tone the bell a- louder...
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