Ten Thousand Miles Away Chords by Musical Blades

[Bb] _ All for a brave and gallant [Eb] ship and a fast and favorite breeze
[Bb] With a ballet crew and a captain too [F] to carry me o'er the seas
[Bb] To carry me o'er the seas, me [Eb] boys, to me true love far away
[Bb] From taking a trip on a government ship [Ab] ten thousand miles away
[Bb] Then blow me when I sigh, ho!
[Eb] Then a-rolling I will go
[Bb] I'll stay no more on England [F] shore to hear the music play
[Bb] I'm off on a bounding bay and [Eb] I won't be back [Bb] again
I'm on the move to me own true [F] love ten [Bb] thousand miles away
My true love, she's [Eb] beautiful, my true love, she was young
[Bb] But she's taking a trip on a government [F] ship bound out to [Cm] Botany Bay
[Bb] Bound out to Botany Bay, me [Eb] boys, and though she's far away
[Bb] I'll never forget me own true [Fm] love ten thousand [Bb] miles away
Then blow me when I sigh, ho!
[Eb] Then a-rolling I will [Bb] go
I'll stay no more on England [F] shore to hear the music [Bb] play
I'm off on a bounding bay and [Eb] I won't be back again
[Bb] I'm on the move to me own true love ten thousand miles away
It was a summer morning [Eb] when I last had seen me Meg
[Bb] She'd a government band around each [F] hand and another one [Cm] around her leg
[Bb] Had another one around her leg, me [Eb] boys, that's the big shit of the bay
[Bb] I do say she remembered [Fm] me ten thousand [Ab] miles away
[Bb] Then blow me when I sigh, ho!
[Eb] Then a-rolling I will go
[Bb] I'll stay no more on England [F] shore to hear the music [Eb] play
[Bb] I'm off on a bounding bay [Eb] and I won't be back again
[Bb] I'm on the move to me own true [Fm] love ten thousand [Bb] miles away
I wish I was a Boston [Eb] boulder sailor without a fear
[Bb] I'd land aboard and away I'd [Fm] float in [F] straight to me true [Fm] love's dear
[Bb] And straight to me true love's dear, me [Eb] boys, where the whales and dolphins play
[Bb] Where the whales and sharks are having their [F] locks ten thousand [Bb] miles away
Then blow me when I sigh, ho!
Then a-rolling I will go
I'll stay no more on England [F] shore to hear the music play
[Bb] I'm off on a bounding bay and [Eb] I won't be back again
[Bb] I'm on the move to me own true [Fm] love ten thousand miles away
Where [Bb] the sun may shine from the London [Abm] fog or [Eb] the river run quite clear
[Bb] Or the ocean brighten into [F] white or I forget me [Ab] beer
[Bb] Or I'll forget me, me [Eb] boys, and the landlords' quota pay
[Bb] But I'll never forget me own true [Ab] love ten thousand [Bb] miles away
Then blow me when I sigh, ho!
Then [Eb] a-rolling I will go
[Bb] I'll stay no more on England [F] shore to hear the music [Cm] play
[Bb] I'm off on a bounding bay [Eb] and I won't be back again
[Bb] I'm on the move to me own [Fm] true love ten thousand [Bb] miles away
Then blow me when I sigh, ho!
[Eb] Then a-rolling I will go
[Bb] I'll stay no more on England shore [F] to hear the music play
[Bb] I'm off on a bounding bay [Eb] and I won't be back again
[Bb] I'm on the move to me own [Fm] true love ten thousand miles away
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