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