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As I went out one May morning down by the riverside
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By shadows there and trees so bare, alas to be me bride
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Alas to be me bride, me boys, the chambers to behold
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I'll never ever forget my love, a jolly sailor bold

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Well, I built my love a gallant ship, a ship of noble frame
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Wi' a hundred jolly sailor boys, to box her about the main
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Aye, to box her about the main, me boys, without any fear or doubt
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Wi' me own true love in that gallant ship__, we were sadly tossed about

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Oh, the anchor and the cable went overboard straightway
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And the mainmast and the rigging lie a-buried in the sea
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'Twas Tempest sent bad weather and the raging of the sea
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Well, I never had but one true love__, he was drowned at sea

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Said the father to the daughter, "What makes you sore lament?
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Oh, there is a lad that's in our town, will make your heart content"
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"No, there is no lad that's in our town, no noble or duke," cried she
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"Since the raging seas and stormy winds__, parted my love and me"

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"No hankerchief will find my head, no comb go through my hair
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No fire bright, nor candle light, will view my beauty fair
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Oh, never will I married be, until the day I die
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Since the raging seas and stormy winds, parted me love and I"

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Oh, as I went out one May morning down by the riverside
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By shadows there and trees so bare, alas to be me bride
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Alas to be me bride, me boys, the chambers to behold
     Dm            F      G       Dm    C      Dm
I'll never ever forget my love, a jolly sailor bold