Steeleye Span – Gone To America (Guitar)

G7                                  C
Married him in April, lost him in July

F            G              C
Listen to my story and I'll tell you why

     F
They said that he'd been poaching and stealing wine

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They said I wouldn't see him for a long, long time

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They said he's gone to America

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To work the land that some called Virginia

               C    F   G
They said he's gone to America

G7                                  C
Married him in April, lost him in July

     F                 G              C
They took him as their prisoner, then told me why

     F
They said they had sent him where poachers go

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I asked if I could see him, but they said no

     G         C    F   G   C
They said he's gone to America

   F                  G              C   G
To work the land that some called Virginia

               C    F   G
They said he's gone to America

G7                                  C
Married him in April, lost him in July

G7                                  C
Married him in April, lost him in July

F                 G                     C
Curse the men who took him, curse their wicked lies

    F
The night they saw him poaching and stealing wine

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Was the night that he took comfort in these arms of  mine

    G        C    F   G   C
But now he's gone to America

   F                  G              C   G
To work the land that some called Virginia

               C    F   G
They said he's gone to America

G7                                  C
Married him in April, lost him in July