Misc Traditional – Jack-A-Roe (Guitar)

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There was a wealthy merchant, in London he did dwell,

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He had a beautiful daughter, the truth to you we'll tell,

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Oh, the truth to you we'll tell.

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She had sweethearts a-plenty and men of high degree,

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But none but Jack the sailor her true love that would be,

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Oh, her true love that would be.

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Jackie's gone a-sailing with trouble on his mind,

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He's left his native country and his darling girl behind,

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Oh, his darling girl behind.

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She went down to a tailor shop and dressed in man's array,

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She climbed aboard a vessel and conveyed herself away,

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Oh, conveyed herself away.

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Before you get on board, sir, our name we'd like to know,

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She smiled in all her countenance, they call me Jack-a-Roe,

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Oh, they call me Jack-a-Roe.

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I see your waist is slender, your fingers they are small,

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Your cheeks too red and rosy to face the cannonball,

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Oh to face the cannonball.

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I know my waist's too slender, my fingers they are small,

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But it would not make me tremble to see ten thousand fall,

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Oh to see ten thousand fall.

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'Twas on a could September night the ship she did set sail

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she sailed into Saint Catharines bay in a bright and spinning gale

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Oh a bright and spinning gale

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The drums they did beat and the pipes they did play

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when into the field of battle Pretty Polly marched away

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Oh Pretty Polly marched away

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The war soon being over she went and looked around,

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Among the dead and wounded her darling boy she found,

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Oh her darling boy she found.

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She picked him up on in her arms and carried him away,

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She sent for a physician who healed him the next day,

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Oh who healed him the next day.

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This couple they got married, so well did they agree,

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And still today they ramble and they plow the raging sea

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Oh they plow the raging sea