The Dubliners – Croppy Boy (Guitar)

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It was early, early in the spring

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The birds did whistle and sweetly sing

   C                       G7     Am
Changing their notes from tree to tree

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And the song they sang was "Ould Ireland Free"

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As I was walking up Wexford Street

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My own first cousin I chanced to meet

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My own first cousin did me betray

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And for one bare guinea swore my life away

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It was early early all in the night

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The yeoman cavalry gave me a fright

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The yeoman cavalry was my downfall

     F          G7  C
And taken was I by Lord Cornwall

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As I was walking up Wexford Hill

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Who could blame me to cry my fill?

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I looked behind, and I looked before

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But my aged mother I shall see no more

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And when I stood on the Scaffold high

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My own dear father was standing by

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Well, my own dear father did me deny

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And the name he gave me was the Croppy Boy

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In Dungannon Town now this boy died

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And in Dungannon Town does his body lie

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So all your strangers that do pass by

        F            G7        C
Just go shed a tear for the Croppy Boy