Chords for Peter Emberley :: Canadian Folk Songs :: Tom Kines

[Bb] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ [F] My name is Peter [Dm] _ Amberley, [Bb] as you [C] may [F] understand.
_ I was born on Prince Edward [Dm] _ Island, close by the ocean [Am] strand.
_ In eighteen hundred [Dm] and [F] eighty, when [Dm] the flowers were a brilliant [Am] hue,
_ _ [F] I left my [Dm] native country, [Bb] my [Cm] fortune to [F] pursue.
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [F]
I landed in [Dm] New _ Brunswick, [Bb] that [Cm] lumbering [F] country. _ _
I hired to work [Dm] in the lumbering [F] woods, [Dm] down south of the [Am] _ Mearmershie. _
[F] I hired to work [Dm] in the lumbering woods, where they cut the [Am] tall spruce [F] down.
I loaded teams [Dm] with yarded logs, [Bb] I received [C] my [F] deathly wound.
[Dm] _ _
[Gm] _ _ [C] _ There's [Fm] danger on [Dm] the _ [Bb] ocean, where the waves [C] roll [F] mountains high.
There's danger on [Dm] the battlefield, _ where angry [Am] bullets fly.
_ [F] There's danger in [Dm] the lumber woods, for death lurks [Am] silent there.
[Em] [F] And I have fallen [D] a victim [Bb] unto [C] its [F]
monstrous snare.
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [F]
Here's adieu unto [Dm] my dearest [Am] friend, [Bb] I mean [C] my mother [Bb] [F] dear. _
She reared a son [Dm] that fell as soon as he left her [Am] tender care.
[F] But little did [Dm] my mother [F] think when [Dm] she sang my _ [Am] lullaby. _
What [Dm] country I would travel in, [Bb] or what [Cm] death I [F] would [Dm] die. _
[Gm] _ _ [C] _ [F] Here's adieu to Prince [Dm] Edward _ Island, and the [Eb] [C] island girl [F] so true.
_ Long may they live [Dm] to roam [F] the shore, [Dm] where my first breath [Am] I drew.
_ No more I'll see [Dm] those lofty ships as they go [Em] sailing [Am] by.
[F] With the banners [D] floating in the [Bb] breeze above [C] their [F] canvas high.
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