The Girl On The Jersey Ferry chords by Ralph Mctell

Chords with lyrics

Verse 1:
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Right from the start let's get one thing straight
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When it comes to the heart you can't legislate
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Funny the things a fellow will remember sometimes
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Like the scene from the movie Citizen Kane
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One short moment with me remains
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Funny the things a fellow will remember sometimes
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When Bernstein says now you take me
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Stuck in my mind one memory
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I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry
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As we pulled out another ferry pulled in
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A augmentedA second between them was all it could have been
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And on it was a girl waiting to get off
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A augmentedA white dress is what she had on
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One second later she was gone
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She never saw me at all,she carried a white parasol
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That was in eighteen ninety six
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And I bet a month hasn't gone by since
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That I haven't thought of that girl on the Jersey ferry


Instrumental: C majorC FF C majorC FF A minorAm G+G  (x4)


Verse 2:
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Now it's nineteen forty one
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Nigh half a century been and gone
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And I still remember that girl with the white dress on
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A augmentedA fleeting glimpse of chances missed
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Destiny or fates cruel twist
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She'd never even know that I exist,
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How about that
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Time is the ticket and the years the toll
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Did I mention she carried a white parasol
A minorAm                   G+G
Funny the things a fellow will remember sometimes


Outro: C majorC FF C majorC FF A minorAm G+G  (x8)