When First I Came To Caledonia chords by
Waterson:carthy

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Key: A major•

Intro 1

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Verse 1

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When first I came to California

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And I got lodging

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with Donald Norman

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He had a daughter who'd

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make good tea

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And it was me and me brother Charlie,

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Two bigger shavers,

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you ne 'er did see,

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We're spearing eels in

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the month of April,

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And starving slaves out on Scat terly.

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I went to Norman's

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to buy some brugseye,

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a keg of salt and a pound of tea.

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But Norman said that I

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could not have them

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till fish got plenty and scattering.

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So I went over to the big harbour,

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I only went for to see the spray.

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I saw a maid from Guadriova,

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she looked to me like the Queen of May.

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If I had come from Pennsylvania

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And I had paper so snowy white

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And I had ink of a rosy morning

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A true love letter to unwrite

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I put my foot on the deepest ocean

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A star from the land, as once I could be

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A sailing over the deepest water

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A woman's love would never bother me

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I'd set my hat to a cask of brandy

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And it's a dandy I do declare

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For when I'm drinkin',

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I'm sad and think in'

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How I could gain that young lady fair

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When first I came to Caledonia,

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And I got loading of number three,

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I know he got lodgin' with Donald Norman

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He had a daughter,

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could make good tea

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