Misc Traditional – Fair Maid Sailor (Guitar)

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When I was a young girl at the age of sixteen

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From my home I ran away to go and serve the queen

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I listed in the Navy a sailor lad to stand

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To hear the canons rattle and the music play so grand

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The music play so grand, the music play so grand

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To hear the canons rattle and the music play so grand

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I dressed myself in trousers and cut my hair of short

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Then I went down to the harbor to see the ships in port

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The officer who listed me said we need every hand

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I think you’ll make a sailor, so step this way young man

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So step this way young man, so step this way young man

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I think you’ll make a sailor, so step this way young man

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He took me to me bunk mates down where the hammocs sway

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And lying by a sailor’s side I never was afraid

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But taking off my old blue coat I sometimes used to smile

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To think my self a sailor and a maiden all the while

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A maiden all the while, a maiden all the while

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To think myself a sailor and a maiden all the while

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They sent me up to London to be gurad o’r the tower

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And there I wolud I have been until this very day and hour

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But a young girl fell in love with me and found I was a maid

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She went straightway to my captain and my secret she betrayed

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My secret she betrayed, my secret she betrayed

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She went straight way to my captain and my secret she betrayed

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My captain he sent for me to see if it were true

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And how could I deny the tale that he already knew

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Here’s a pension of war for you, he smiled and he said

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It’s a pity we should lose you such a sailor as you made

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Such a sailor as you made, such a sailor as you made

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It’s a pity we should lose you such a sailor as you made

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So fare thee well my captain, you have been kind to me

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And fare thee well my comrades, you ne’er forgot shall be

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And should the British nay fall short of any men,

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I’ll doff off my hat feathers and I’ll run the rigging again

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I’ll run the rigging again, I’ll run the rigging again

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I’ll doff off my hat and feathers and run the rigging again