Willie The Bold Sailor Boy chords by Norma Waterson

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Verse 1
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A  (E minor) sailing trade,  (A major) it is a  (D major) weary life
Em 
D 
It robs young maids of their  (E minor) heart's de (D major) light
It leaves them all for to sigh and moan,
Em 
D 
To  (E minor) think their true lovers  (D major) will ne 'er return.
Em 
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Oh,  (E minor) Father, Father,  (D major) build me a boat
And on the ocean I am bound to float
D 
An (D major) d  every sailship that I pass by,
Em 
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I  (E minor) will inquire  (A major) of my  (D major) sailor boy.
Em 
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She  (E minor) was not sailing  (D major) long
upon the deep,
A fleet of Frenchmen she chanced to meet.
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Oh, Captain, Captain,  (E major) come tell  (D major) me  (A major) true,
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 (D major) does  (E major) my love
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 (A major) William  (D major) sail on board with you?
What sort of clothes does
your true love wear?
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What color being your  (C major) true  (D major) love's hair?
His jacket's blue and his trousers white,
Em 
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 (E minor) His curly  (A major) locks  (D major) tied to his waistband tight.
Em 
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Oh  (E minor) no, fair  (D major) maid, William is not here.
He is drowned, and I greatly fear.
It was last evening the storm rolled by,
And parted William from
D 
our  (D major) topmast high.
Em 
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She's  (E minor) wrung her  (D major) hands an
C 
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 (C major) d she  (D major) tore her hair
She's cursed herself in
most modest fare
D 
 (D major) A  little boat against the rock she's run
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How can  (E major) I live  (D major) now that my
love has gone
With pen and paper she's
wrote a song
She's wrote it wide and
she has wrote it long.
D 
 (D major) At every line she did shed a tear,
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and every  (A major) verse  (D major) she  (A major) did cry,
D 
 (D major) William dear,
Come dig my grave long,
and dig it deep,
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 (D major) and  over me let  (C major) true lov (D major) ers weep,
and on my breast
D 
Place a snow  (D major) white dove
Em 
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to  (E minor) show the world  (A major) that I  (D major) died for love.