Adieu To Bon County chords by Traditional

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: Dm

Difficulty: Novice

Verse 1:
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lt‘s a great separation my friends they have caused me,
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By hearing their spite that my favour was won.
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lt‘s a great separation, likewise a vexation,
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And they shall be sorry for what they have done.

Verse 2:
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Eat, drink and be jolly and care not for folly,
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And drowned away sorrow in a bottle of wine.
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Pass it to the boys in full-flowing bumpers,
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And play on the fiddle to pass away time.

Verse 3:
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Adieu to Bon County, I‘m bound for to leave you,
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And seek my heart‘s fortune in some foreign land.
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Where bottles and glasses are my greatest comfort,
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And when we do meet we will join heart and hand.

Verse 4:
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Farewell to my friends and my good old neighbours,
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Likewise to the girl I will never see more.
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This world it is wide and I‘ll spend it in pleasures,
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I care for no one that won‘t care for me.

Verse 5:
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My fortune is small and freely I own it,
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What little I have it is all of my own.
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I might have lived longer to enjoy it with pleasure,
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lf my poor friends had of let me alone.

Verse 6:
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I have money a plenty to bear my expenses,
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And when it‘s all gone I‘ll chop wood and get more.
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When death it comes on me I‘ll freely go with it,
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Pay up my last dues and go with it home.