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