Chords for A Sailor's Life - Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick.wmv

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[E] _ [F#] _ _ _ _ A sailor's life is a merry life, [F#m] _
_ They rob young girls of their heart's delight,
[C#] _ Leaving them [F#] _
_ _ behind for to weep [B] and mourn, [F#m] They never know [F#] when they will [F#m] return.
_ All bears four and twenty, all in the [C#] wrong, [F#m] _
_ My sweetheart comes, the [B]
finest [C#] _ _ jock,
He's proper tall, [F#] _ _ gentile [B] _
withal, If [F#m] I don't have him, I'll have [F#m] none at all.
_ O Father, build me a [B] bonnie [C#] [F#m] boat, [F#] _ That on the wide ocean [C#] I may float,
_ _ And every _ _ [F#] queenship that we [B] pass by, _ [F#m] That I'll inquire [B] of o'er my [F#m] sailor boy.
_ Now they have not sailed long upon the day, _
[F#] _ Before the queenship [B] my chance [C#] to meet,
_ You sailors [F#] _
all, I pray, tell [B] me true, _ _ [F#m] Does my sweet William [B] sail [F#m] among your foo?
_ _ O no, fair [F#]
lady, he [B] is not here, [F#] _
For he's been drowned, and [B] we [C#] greatly _ fear,
On yon green isle, [F#] and as we passed _ by, There we lost [B] sight of your [F#m] sailor boy.
_ Now she wrung her [F#] hands, and she [G#] tore her hair, _ [F#] _ Much like a damsel [B] in great [C#] despair, _
Our little _ _ [F#] boat can't stay roped [B] in wrong, _ _ [F#] How can I live now my [F#m] William's gone? _
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