Chords with lyrics
Intro
Part 
A augmentedA
A minorAm 
E MajorE | A minorAm 
G+G | 
C majorC G+G | A minorAm - E MajorE A minorAm
Am E MajorE | A minorAm G+G | C majorC G+G | A minorAm - E MajorE A minorAm
Part 
BB
E minorEm Em | E minorEm Em | E minorEm Em | A augmentedA E minorEm
Part C majorC
C G+G | A minorAm E MajorE | C majorC G+G | A minorAm - E MajorE A minorAm
C majorC G+G | A minorAm E MajorE | C majorC G+G | A minorAm - E MajorE A minorAm
verse 1
A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm G+G
My masters, and friends, and good people, draw near,
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
And look to your purses for that I do say;
A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm G+G
And though little mony in them you do bear,
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
It costs more to get than to lose in a day;
E minorEm
You oft have been told, both the young and the old,
And bidden beware of the Cut-purse so bold;
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE
Then, if you take heed not, free me from the curse,
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
Who both give you warning for and the cut-purse.
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE
Youth, youth you hadst better been starv'd by thy nurse,
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
Than live to be hang'd for cutting as purse.
Bridge
Part A augmentedA
A minorAm E MajorE | A minorAm G+G | C majorC G+G | A minorAm - E MajorE A minorAm
Am E MajorE | A minorAm G+G | C majorC G+G | A minorAm - E MajorE A minorAm
Part BB
E minorEm Em | E minorEm Em | E minorEm Em | A augmentedA E minorEm
Part C majorC
C G+G | A minorAm E MajorE | C majorC G+G | A minorAm - E MajorE A minorAm
C majorC G+G | A minorAm E MajorE | C majorC G+G | A minorAm - E MajorE A minorAm
verse 2
A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm G+G
It hath been upbraided to men of my trade,
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
That oftentimes we are the cause of this crime.
A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm G+G
Alack and for pitty! why should it be said,
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
As if they regarded or places or time?
E minorEm
Examples have been of those that were seen
In Westminster-hall, yea, the pleaders between;
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE
Then why should the judges be free from this curse
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
More than my poor self is, for cutting a purse?
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE
Then why should the judges be free from this curse
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
More than my poor self is, for cutting a purse?
verse 3
A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm G+G
At Worster, 'tis known well that even in the jale,
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
A augmentedA knight of good worship did there shew his face.
A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm G+G
Against the foul sinners in zeale for to raile,
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
And so lost, ipso facto, his purse in the place:
E minorEm
Nay, once from the seat of judgement so great,
A augmentedA judge there did lose a fair pouch of velvet.
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE
Oh Lord! for thy mercy how wicked, or worse,
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
Are those that so venture their necks for a purse!
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE
Oh Lord! for thy mercy how wicked, or worse,
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
Are those that so venture their necks for a purse!
verse 4
A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm G+G
At playes and at sermons and at the Sessions,
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
'Tis daily their practice such booty to make;
A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm G+G
Yea under the gallows, at executions,
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
They stick not the stare-abouts' purses to take;
E minorEm
Nay, one without grace, at a better place,
At Court, and in Christmas, before the Kings face.
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE
Alack then for pitty! must I bear the curse,
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
That only belongs to the cunning Cut-purse?
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE
Youth, youth you hadst better been starv'd by thy nurse,
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
Than live to be hang'd for cutting as purse.
Verse 5
A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm G+G
But oh, you vile nation of Cut-purses all!
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
Relent and repent, and amend, and be sound,
A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm G+G
And know that you ought not by honest men's fall
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
Advance your own fortunes to dye above ground:
E minorEm
And though you go gay in silks, as you may,
It is not the highway to heaven, as they say.
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE
Repent then, repent you, for better for worse,
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
And kiss not the gallows for cutting a purse.
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE
Youth, youth you hadst better been starv'd by thy nurse,
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
Than live to be hang'd for cutting as purse.
Verse 6
A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm G+G
The players doe tell you in Bartholemew Faire
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
What secret consumptions and rascels you are;
A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm G+G
For one of their actors, it seems, had the fate,
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
By some of you trade to be fleeced of late:
E minorEm
Then fall to your prayers, you that are way-layers!
They're fit to chouse all the world that can cheat players;
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE
For he hath the art, and no man the worse,
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
Whose cunning can pilfer the pilferer's purse.
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE
For he hath the art, and no man the worse,
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
Whose cunning can pilfer the pilferer's purse.
Verse 7
A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm G+G
The plain countryman that comes staring to London,
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
If once you come near him he quickly is undone;
A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm G+G
For when he amazedly gazeth about,
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
One treads on his toes, and the other puls't out;
E minorEm
Then in a strange place, where he knows no face,
His mony is gone, 'tis a pittifull case.
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE
The divel of hell in his trade is not worse
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
Than gilter, and diver, and cutter of purse.
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE
The divel of hell in his trade is not worse
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
Than gilter, and diver, and cutter of purse.
Verse 8
A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm G+G
The poor servant maid wears her purse in her placket,
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
A augmentedA place of quick feeling, and yet you can take it;
A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm G+G
Nor is she aware that you have done the feat,
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
Untill she is going to pay for her meat;
E minorEm
Then she cryes and she rages amongst her baggages,
And swears at one thrust she hath lost all her wages;
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE
For she is ingaged her own to disburse,
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
To make good the breach of the cruel Cut-purse.
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE
For she is ingaged her own to disburse,
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
To make good the breach of the cruel Cut-purse.
Verse 9
A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm G+G
Your eyes and your fingers are nimble of growth,
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
But Dun many times hath been nimbler than both;
A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm G+G
Yet you are deceived by many a slut,
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
But the hangman is only the Cut-purses cut.
E minorEm
It makes you to vex when he bridles your necks,
And then at the last what becomes of your tricks?
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE
But when you should pray, you begin for to curse
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
The hand that first shewd you to slash at purse.
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE
But when you should pray, you begin for to curse
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
The hand that first shewd you to slash at purse.
verse 10
A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm G+G
But now to my hearers this counsel I give,
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
And pray, friends, remember it as long as you live,
A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm G+G
Bring out no more cash in purse, pocket or wallet,
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
Than one single penny to pay for the ballet;
E minorEm
For Cut-purse doth shrowd himself in a cloud,
There's many a purse hath been lost in a crowd;
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE
For he's the most rouge that doth crowd up, and curses,
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
Who first cryes, "My masters, beware of your purses!"
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE
Youth, youth you hadst better been starv'd by thy nurse,
C majorC G+G A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
Than live to be hang'd for cutting at purse.
Outro
Part A augmentedA
A minorAm E MajorE | A minorAm G+G | C majorC G+G | A minorAm - E MajorE A minorAm
Am E MajorE | A minorAm G+G | C majorC G+G | A minorAm - E MajorE A minorAm
Part BB
E minorEm Em | E minorEm Em | E minorEm Em | A augmentedA E minorEm
Part C majorC
C G+G | A minorAm E MajorE | C majorC G+G | A minorAm - E MajorE A minorAm
C majorC G+G | A minorAm E MajorE | C majorC G+G | A minorAm - E MajorE A minorAm
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