Chords for The Mary Wallopers - Home Boys Home live at Other Voices Ballina

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_ _ [B] _ _ [C#] _ _ [G#m] _ _
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _
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[D#m] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ [B] _ _
[G#m] _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Oh, he wouldn't be a sailor lad, a-sailing on the [B] main,
[C#] To gain the [B] respect [F#] of his captain's good name,
[B] He'd sail ashore [F#] one evening [C#] far to be,
_ _ And that was the beginning of me old love of tea,
And [F#] this home boy [B] is home,
[F#] _ A home I'd like to [B] be,
A home [F#] for a while [B] in me old [C#] [G#m] Tonstery,
[F#] Where they all [B] come me ash and the bonnie [C#] rowan tree,
And all the rowan green in the [F#] Tonstery.
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[F#] Now I asked her for a candle to light me up to bed,
[C#] And likewise for a handkerchief [F#] to tie around me head,
She tended [B] to me knees [F#] like a young [C#] mare ought to do,
And then I said to her, now won't you laugh in with me too,
[F#] And this home boy is [B] [F#] home, _
A home I'd like to [B] be,
A home [F#] for a [B] while in me old [C#] Tonstery,
[F#] Where they [B] all come me [F#] ash and [G#m] the bonnie [C#] rowan tree,
And all the rowan green in the [F#] Tonstery. _ _ _ _
_ Now she jumped into bed, making no alarm,
[C#] Thinking that a [F#] sailor boy could do to her no harm,
I hugged [D#m] her and I kissed [A#] her the [G#m] whole night long,
[C#] I wish this short night had been seventy years long,
[F#] And this home boy is home,
_ A home I'd like to [B] be,
A [F#] home for a [B] while in me [C#] old Tonstery,
[F#] Where they [B] all come me [F#] ash and [C#] the bonnie rowan tree,
And all the rowan green in the [F#] Tonstery.
_ [F] _
[F#] _ _ _ _ Oh early next morning the sailor boy arose,
[C#] Into Mary's apron [F#] threw a handful of gold,
Sent it [B] this me dear [F#] for the damage [C#] that I'd done,
The night that there I left you with the daughter of a saw,
[F#] And this home boy is [C#] home,
[F#] _ _ A home I'd like to [B] be,
A home [F#] for a while in me old [C#] Tonstery,
[F#] Where they all [B] come me ash [F#] and the bonnie [C#] rowan tree,
And all the rowan green in the [G#m] [F#] Tonstery. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Oh if it be a girl child send her out the [C#] nurse,
With gold in her apron [F#] and with silver in her purse,
If [D#m] he be a boy [A#] let him wear [G#m] the jacket blue,
And [C#] go climbing up the rigging like his father used to do,
[F#] And this home boy is [C#] home,
[F#] _ _
A home I'd like to [B] be,
A home [F#] for a [B] while in me [C#] old [G#m] Tonstery,
[F#] Where they all [B] come me ash and the bonnie [C#] rowan tree,
And all the rowan green in the [F#] Tonstery.
_ _ [F] _ [F#] _ _
_ Oh a warning me maidens, a warning take by me,
[C#] Don't ever let a sailor [F#] by an inch above your knee,
For I trust [B] in one, _
[C#] And he beguile me. _
_ _ [F#] _ He left me with a pair of twins to dangle on me knee,
And this home boy is [C#] home,
[F#] _ A home I'd like to [B] be,
A [F#] home for a while in [B] me [C#] old Tonstery,
[F#] Where they [B] all come me [F#] ash and the [C#] bonnie rowan tree,
And all the rowan green in the _ [F#] Tonstery.
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