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