Great Big Sea - John Barbour guitar chord

John Barbour

by Great Big Sea

capo on 3

This is my own work. I think I got it right.

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What ails you my daughter dear

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your eyes are so dim

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have you had any sore sickness

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or yet been sleeping with a man

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I have not had any sore sickness

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but I know what's ailing me

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I thinking of my own true love

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he plows the raging sea

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he plows the raging sea

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be he a lord or a duke or a knight

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or a man of wealth of fame

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or is he one of my sailor lads

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come tell me now his name

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he is no lord or a duke or knight

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or a man of wealth and fame

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he is one of your sailor lads

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and john barbour is his name

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now if John Barbour is his name

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a lowly sailor man is he

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and if John Barbor is his name

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then hanged he will be

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than hanged he will be

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the king he calls his sailors all

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by one by two by three

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John Barbour was the first he called

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but the last came was he

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when he came a trippin down

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he was clothed in all in white

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his hair were like the roses red

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and his teeth were ivory brite

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he paid their wages with a smile

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when John Barbour he did see

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if i was a woman if I were a man

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then bedfellows we would be

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will you marry my daughter Jane

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and take her by the hand

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will you come and dine with me

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take charge of all my land

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I will marry your daughter Jane

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and I'll take her by the hand

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I will come and dine with you

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but to hell with all your lands

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if you can give her one gold piece

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then I can give her three

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for I am bold John Barbour

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and I plow the raging sea

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I plow the raging sea

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I plow the raging sea