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