Intro
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[Verse 1]
A D E
Adieu, my lovely Nancy
A E
Ten thousand times adieu
D A F#m
I'll be thinking of my own true love
Bm E A
I'll be thinking, dear, of you
[Verse 2]
D E
Will you change your ring with me, my love?
A E
Will you change your ring with me?
D A F#m
It will be a token of our love
Bm E A
When I am far at sea
[Verse 3]
D E
When I am far away from home
A E
And you know not where I am
D A F#m
Love letters I will write to you
Bm E D
From every foreign strand
[Instrumental]
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[Verse 4]
A D E
When the farmer boys return at night
A E
They will tell their girls fine tales
D A F#m
Of all that they've been doing
Bm E D E
All day out in the fields
[Verse 5]
A D E
Of the wheat and hay that they cut down
A E
Sure it's all that they can do
D A F#m
While we poor jolly, jolly hearts of oak
Bm E F#m
Must plough the seas all through
[Instrumental]
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[Verse 6]
A D E
And when we return again, my love
A E
To our own dear native shore
D A F#m
Fine stories we will tell to you
Bm E A
How we ploughed the oceans o'er
[Verse 7]
D E
And we'll make the alehouses to ring
A E
And the taverns, they will roar
D A F#m
And when our money is all gone
Bm E D
Sure we'll go to sea for more
[Outro]
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