Chords for John Doyle - Willie Taylor

[Em] _ _ _ _ _ [E] I wouldn't call this a happy song either.
But _ it does have a happy ending so to speak.
And [G#] _ it's a, so you'll hear [B] that.
But this is like one of these classic songs that's
you know where a woman dresses up as a man to go to sea [N] or to go to war.
And _ there's
a lot of real instances of this and people not finding out until they had died in the
sea and all of a sudden they're like, oh she's a woman.
He's a woman.
And so this one [E] is
called Willie Taylor.
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_ _ _ _ Willie [Em] Taylor and his beautiful lover full of mirth and loyalty.
They were going to the
church to be married.
He was Preston St.
Onstey.
Dally dally dum diddly [Bm] dum dum [E] dum dum.
Dally
dally dum diddly dum dum day.
She dressed herself up like a sailor.
[Em] On her breast she
wore a star.
Her lovely fingers long and slender.
She gave them all just a smear of
tar.
Dally dally dum diddly dum dum dum dum.
Dally dally dum diddly dum dum day.
_ Now on
the ship [Bm] there being [Am] a skirmish.
She'd been [Em] one [C] amongst the rest.
A silver [D] button flew
[Em] off her jacket.
There appeared her snow white breast.
Dally dally dum diddly dum dum dum
dum.
[E] Dally dally dum diddly dum dum day.
Send a captain to this fair maid.
What misfortune
has took you here?
[C] I'm in search of [Am] my true lover whom [Em] you pressed on the other [C] ear.
[E] Dally
dally dum diddly dum dum dum dum.
Dally dally dum diddly dum dum day.
_ [Em] _ _ _ _
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[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
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If you're in search
of your true lover pray come tell to me his name.
Willie Taylor they do call him but Fitzgerald
is his name.
Dally dally dum diddly dum dum dum dum.
Dally dally dum diddly dum dum day.
If [Em] you get up tomorrow morning early [B] as the break [C] of day.
They aspire [Bm] Willie [A] Taylor walking
[Bm] along with his [C] lady [Em] gay.
Dally dally dum diddly dum dum dum.
Dally dum dally dum dum day.
_ So she [Am] got [Em] up the [C] very next morning early [Bm] as the [A] break of day.
[Am] There she spied her William
Taylor walking along [Em] with his lady gay.
Dally dally dum diddly dum dum [E] dum.
Dally dally
dum diddly dum dum day.
_ _ _ _ _ She [G] drew out a [Em] brace of pistols that she [C] had at her command.
[Em] There
she [Bm] shot her William [C] Taylor with [C#m] his pride at his [C] right [E] hand.
Dally dally dum diddly
dum dum dum.
Dally dally dum diddly dum dum day.
_ _ When _ [Em] _
_ _ _ _ _ the captain came to hear it of the
deed that she had done.
He made her a ship's commander over a vessel [Bm] for the [C] Isle of [Em] Man.
Dally dally dum diddly dum dum dum.
Dally dally [Bm] dum diddly [C] dum dum [Am] day.
Dally dally
dum diddly dum dum dum.
[E] Dally [A] dally [Bm] dum diddly [Em] dum dum day.
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