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