The Rich Irish Lady chords by Hedy West

• Capo on 4th

Key: B

Verse 1:
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A rich Irish lady from the London she came
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A beautiful damsel called Saro by name
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There was a young merchant worth thousands a year
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Come courtin this beautiful damsel so fair

Verse 2:
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But her beauty being lofty and her portions so high
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That on this young merchant she scarce cast her eye
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Oh Saro, oh Saro, oh Saro said he,
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I'm sorry that my love and yours can't agree
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And now if your hatred don't turn into love,
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I know that your beauty my ruin shall prove

Verse 3:
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Oh no I don't hate you nor no other man,
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But to say that I love you is more than I can
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So you can retire and quit the discourse,
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For I never will have you unless I am forced

Verse 4:
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Oh scarcely six weeks had rolled over and passed
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When this beautiful damsel fell sick at the last
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She was tangled in love and she knew not for why
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She sent for this young man she once did deny

Verse 5:
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Oh am I the doctor you've sent for me here
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Or am I the young man that you now love so dear
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Oh yes you're the doctor can kill or can cure
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And without your assistance I'm ruined I'm sure

Verse 6:
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Oh Saro, oh Saro, oh Saro said he,
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Now don't you remember when I courted thee
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You slighted denied me through scorn and distain
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And now I reward you for whats past and gone
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For what's past and gone love forget and forgive
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And let me have longer on this earth to live

Verse 7:
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Oh no I won't Saro enduring your life
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But I'll dance on your grave when you're laid in the earth
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Oh off of her finger pulled diamond rings three
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Sayin take these and wear them while dancing on me

Verse 8:
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Pretty Saro was dead as we all might suppose,
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Some other rich woman will wear her fine clothes
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She's at last made a bed in the wet and cold clay,
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Her red rosy cheeks are now moldering away