Fiddlers Green

Tabbed by: Johannes Lange
E-mail: joh-dot-lange-at-gmx-dot-de

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There's a sad tale I'll tell you of a sailor man's life
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How his love for the high seas would cost him a wife
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When I've told you my story I'm sure you'll agree
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It's not but pure folly when a man goes to sea
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Just a young lad of twenty I was courting a lass
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Full of innocent beauty with style and with class
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But the ships in the harbor they beckoned it seemed
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I was lured by the trade winds to find fiddler's green
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When first I went sailing how a young girl did cry
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But the lure of the trade winds could not be denied
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And though she vowed to be faithful as my ship sailed away
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She would marry another one year from that day
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Yo ho ho, fiddler's green
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Bewitching young sailors with all of your dreams
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Yo ho ho, she's calm and serene
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Enchantment awaits you on fiddler's green
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Well I've sailed many oceans since I left Boston town
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And my hair has turned silver that was once chestnut brown
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And from London to Bombay and ports in between
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I was always in search of this fiddler's green
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And to you young lads now courting pretty maidens so fair
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Should you hear those trade winds let me warn you beware
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Go marry your young girl, as your corn and your beans
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Don't waste your young manhood on fiddler's green
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Yo ho ho, fiddler's green
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Bewitching young sailors with all of your dreams
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Yo ho ho, she's calm and serene
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Enchantment awaits you on fiddler's green