Dark-eyed Sailor chords by Karen Mal

• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

🎸 Verse 1:
   Bb        Eb           Bb       Gm
As I went a-walking one evening fair
   Bb         Dm       Eb       Bb
It being the summer to take the air
  Gm      Dm           Cm     F
I spied a maiden and a sailor bold
      Gm       F
And I stood to listen
      Bb         Eb  F      Bb        F         Bb
And I stood to lis-ten to hear what they might say



🎸 Verse 2:
   Bb         Eb        Bb     Gm
He said "Fair maid, why do you roam
   Bb     Dm      Eb  Bb
By yonder lea and all alone "
    Gm       Dm            Cm        F
She heaved a sigh, and the tears did roll
        Gm        F
"For my dark-eyed sailor
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For my dark-eyed sai-lor, he plows the stormy sea

🎸 Verse 3:
     Bb         Eb             Bb        Gm
'Tis seven long years since he left this land
   Bb          Dm           Eb         Bb
A ring he took off from his lily-white hand
    Gm          Dm      Cm              F
One half of the ring is still here with me
        Gm       F
But the other is rolling
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But the other is rol-ling at the bottom of the sea"

🎸 Verse 4:
   Bb         Eb             Bb       Gm
He said "Fair maid, you must dry your eyes
     Bb          Dm           Eb     Bb
Some other young man you will surely find
    Gm         Dm        Cm         F
For love turns aside and soon grows cold
       Gm       F
Like a winter's morning
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Like a winter's mor-ning, when the fields are clad in snow"

🎸 Verse 5:
    Bb         Eb       Bb      Gm
She said "I'll never forsake my dear
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Al-though we've Versed this many a year
  Gm       Dm        Cm        F
Gentle was he, not a rake like you
      Gm       F
Who'd induce a maiden
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Who'd induce a mai-den to slight the jacket blue"

🎸 Verse 6:
    Bb          Eb             Bb      Gm
One half of the ring did young William show
   Bb       Dm         Eb        Bb
She ran dis-tracted in grief and woe
       Gm           Dm              Cm      F
Saying "William, oh William
I have gold in store
       Gm        F
For my dark-eyed sailor
       Bb        Eb  F       Bb       F    Bb
For my dark-eyed sai-lor, he has come home again"