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