Verse
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I am a gallant highway man, called Valentine O'Hara
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And I come from poor but decent folk nigh to the Hill of Tara
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By the getting of a maid with child, to England I went over
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I left my parents and I became a wild and daring rover
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Well, it's straight to England I did go, where I became a soldier
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Resolved to fight Britannia's foes; no Hector great was bolder
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I fought all in some foreign shores, where the cannons loud did rattle
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Believe me boys, I do not boast how I behaved in battle
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Well it's many's the battle I fought in, in Holland and French Flanders
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For I always fought with a courage keen, led on by great commanders
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Until a cruel Ensign found me out, and I was flogged and carted
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Oh Cruel Usage they gave me, and so I soon departed
[INSTRUMENTAL - pipes - verse chods 1X]
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Well it's straight back to England I did go as fast as winds would drive me
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Resolved that of my liberty, no man could e'er deny me
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For I slept out in the fields at night, by all my friends forsaken
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I dared not walk the road by day, for fear I might be taken
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But I being of a courage keen and likewise able-bodied
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I robbed Lord Nelson on the King's Highway with my pistols heavy loaded
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I placed my pistols to his breast which caused his heart to quiver
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Five-hundred pounds in ready gold to me he did deliver
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Well, with part of my new store of gold I bought a famous gelding
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That could jump o'er a five-bar gate, and I bought it from Ned Fielding
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Lord Arkinstone all in his coach I robbed near Covent Garden
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And two hours later that same night I robbed the Earl of Warren
[VERSE 7]
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In Turnham Green I next did rob the revenue collector
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And what I took from him I gave to a widow to protect her
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I always robbed the rich and great, for to rob the poor I scorned it
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And now in iron chains I'm bound and dooomed I now lie burning
[VERSE 8]
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And it's straight to Newgate I do go, all by the law convicted
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To hang all on the Tyburn tree, of which I'm much affrighted
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Farewell my friends and neighbors all, likewise my native Tara
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Kind providence may test the soul of Valentine O'Hara
- 1. Chord Gitar Daoiri Farrell - Valentine Ohara Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar C)
- 2. Ganti Chord Gitar Daoiri Farrell - Valentine Ohara Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar C)
- 3. Author Lagu Andra Ramadhan