Roger Mcguinn

Jolly Roger by Roger Mcguinn

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From RICKL1@IX.NETCOM.COM Sun May  4 11:24:06 1997

Roger McGuinn   Jolly Roger   written by Roger McGuinn/Jacques Levy

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The sun comes up on the ...
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Being hunted by the King's Navy ...
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Pull away me lads  O the Cardiff Rose ...
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We brought her into the ...
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For thoughts of what it might ...
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But thoughts about the Spanish ....
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Can make a man so brash and bold ...
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Pull away me lads of the Cardiff  Rose ...
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Now a gleam came into the captain's ...
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clipper
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She looks the perfect shape and size ...
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We fired a shot across her bow and ...
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With our keel as close as she'd ...
her
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Pull away me lads of the Cardiff ...
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Up she tumbles and starts to pitch  ...
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We tightened our hold another hitch ...
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Now there's many a day  on the ...
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raider
But we never did nothing ....
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Than the way ...
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Pull away me lads of the Cardiff Rose ...
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Her hold was hot as St Elmo's ...
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treasure
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We took as much as we'd ...
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Now there's many a day on ...
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But none I ...
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As the happy day I first ...
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Pull away me lads of the Cardif ...

 Copyright @ 1975 Patian Music and Jackelope Publishing Co.(BMI)
 From the "Cardiff Rose''  LP  Columbia Records 1976

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