Misc Traditional – Adieu To Bon County (Guitar)

       Dm                  G                 F
lt‘s a great separation my friends they have caused me,

   Dm                          G
By hearing their spite that my favour was won.

       Dm                      G       F
lt‘s a great separation, likewise a vexation,

    Dm                      G
And they shall be sorry for what they have done.

       Dm                  G                 F
Eat, drink and be jolly and care not for folly,

   Dm                          G
And drowned away sorrow in a bottle of wine.

       Dm                      G       F
Pass it to the boys in full-flowing bumpers,

    Dm                      G
And play on the fiddle to pass away time.

       Dm                  G                 F
Adieu to Bon County, I‘m bound for to leave you,

   Dm                          G
And seek my heart‘s fortune in some foreign land.

       Dm                      G       F
Where bottles and glasses are my greatest comfort,

    Dm                      G
And when we do meet we will join heart and hand.

       Dm                  G                 F
Farewell to my friends and my good old neighbours,

   Dm                          G
Likewise to the girl I will never see more.

       Dm                      G       F
This world it is wide and I‘ll spend it in pleasures,

    Dm                      G
I care for no one that won‘t care for me.

       Dm                  G                 F
My fortune is small and freely I own it,

   Dm                          G
What little I have it is all of my own.

       Dm                      G       F
I might have lived longer to enjoy it with pleasure,

    Dm                      G
lf my poor friends had of let me alone.

       Dm                  G                 F
I have money a plenty to bear my expenses,

   Dm                          G
And when it‘s all gone I‘ll chop wood and get more.

       Dm                      G       F
When death it comes on me I‘ll freely go with it,

    Dm                      G
Pay up my last dues and go with it home.