Artist: | The Mary Wallopers (English) |
User: | Mark Shorten |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Not defined |
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Comment: | - |
This is based off the version that The Mary Wallopers do on their album "Home Boys Home"
They keep playing G at the end of each verse and don't swich to C, but it sounds cleaner with the C change
Capo 4
[Verse 1]
C
Well who wouldn't be a sailor lad, sailing on the main,
G C
To gain the respect of his captain's good name,
C F C G
He came ashore one evening for to be,
C
And that was the beginning of my own sweetheart and me.
[Chorus]
C G C
And it's home boys home, home I'd like to be,
F C G
Home for a while in me own country,
C F C G
Where the Oak and the Ash,and the bonny Rowan tree,
C
Are all growing green in the old country.
[Verse 2]
C
Well I asked her for a candle for to light me way to bed,
G C
And likewise for a handkerchief to tie around me head,
C F C G
She tended to me needs like a young maid aught to do,
C
And then I said to her now would you leap in with me too.
[Chorus]
C G C
And it's home boys home, home I'd like to be,
F C G
Home for a while in me own country,
C F C G
Where the Oak and the Ash,and the bonny Rowan tree,
C
Are all growing green in the old country.
[Verse 3]
C
Well she jumped into bed making no alarm,
G C
Thinking a young sailor boy could do to her no harm,
C F C G
Well I hugged her and I kissed her the whole night long,
C
she wished the short night,had been seven years long.
[Chorus]
C G C
And it's home boys home, home I'd like to be,
F C G
Home for a while in me own country,
C F C G
Where the Oak and the Ash,and the bonny Rowan tree,
C
Are all growing green in the old country.
[Verse 4]
C
Well early next morning the sailor boy arose,
G C
And into Mary's apron threw a handful of gold,
C F C G
Saying take this me dear for the mischief that I've done,
C
Last night I fear I've left you with a daughter or a son.
[Chorus]
C G C
And it's home boys home, home I'd like to be,
F C G
Home for a while in me own country,
C F C G
Where the Oak and the Ash,and the bonny Rowan tree,
C
Are all growing green in the old country.
[Verse 5]
C
Well if it be a boy child send him out to nurse,
G C
With gold in his pocket and silver in his purse,
C F C G
And if it be a girl, let her wear the jacket blue,
C
And go out gallivanting like her father used to do.
[Chorus]
C G C
And it's home boys home, home I'd like to be,
F C G
Home for a while in me own country,
C F C G
Where the Oak and the Ash,and the bonny Rowan tree,
C
Are all growing green in the old country.
[Verse 6]
C
A warning me maidens, a warning take by me,
G C
Don't ever let a sailor boy an inch above your knee,
C F C G
For I trusted one and he beguiled me,
C
and he left me with a pair of twins to dangle on me knee.
[Chorus]
C G C
And it's home boys home, home I'd like to be,
F C G
Home for a while in me own country,
C F C G
Where the Oak and the Ash,and the bonny Rowan tree,
C
Are all growing green in the old country.