William Bloat chords by The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem

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Verse 1
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 (D major) In a Maine abode,
on the Shankill Road,
Lived a man named William Bloat.
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And he  (G major) had a wife, the  (D major) bane of his life,
Who always got his goat.
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 (A major) And one  (D major) day at dawn,
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with her nightdress  (G major) on,
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he  (D major) slit her bloody throat.
Now he was glad he had
done what he had,
as she lay there stiff and still.
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Till sud (G major) denly all of the  (D major) angry law
filled his soul with an awful chill.
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 (A major) And to  (D major) finish the fun so well begun (G major) 
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He de (A major) cided him (D major) self to kill
Then he took the sheet
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from his wife's cold  (G major) feet
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And he  (D major) twisted it into a rope
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And he  (G major) hanged himself from the pantry  (D major) shelf
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It was an easy end, let's  (A major) hope
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With his  (D major) dying breath, and he facing death,
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 (G major) he  (A major) solemnly  (D major) cursed the Pope.
But the strangest turn
of the whole concern
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 (G major) is  (D major) only just beginning.
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He went  (G major) to hell,
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but his  (D major) wife got well,
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and she's still alive and  (A major) sinning.
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For the  (D major) razor blade was  (B minor) German  (A major) made,  (G major) 
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but  (D major) the rope  (A major) was  (D major) Belfast made.
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