Chords with lyrics
Key: D
♫ Verse 1:
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"What's the matter with you, me lass, and where's your dashing Jimmy "
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"Them soldier boys have picked him up and taken him far from me.
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Last pay-day he went into town and them redcoated fellows
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Enticed him in and made him drunk, and he'd better gone to the gallows.
♫ Verse 2:
D A7sus4 A A7 Bm G A
The very sight of his cockade, it sets us all a-cryin
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And me
I nearly fainted twice - I thought that I was dyin'.
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Me father said he'd pay the smart and he'd run for the Golden Guinea
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But sergeant swore he'd kissed the book, so now they've got young Jimmy.
♫ Verse 3:
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When Jimmy talks about the wars, it's worse than death to hear him.
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I must go out and hide me tears, because I cannot bear him.
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A Brigadier or a Grenadier he says they're sure to make him
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So now he jibes and cracks his jokes and bids me not forsake him.
♫ Verse 4:
D A7sus4 A A7 Bm G A
As I walked o'er yon stubbled field - below where runs the seam
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I think on Jimmy hewing there, but it was all a dream.
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He hewed the very coils we burn, so when this fire I'm leetin'
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To think the lumps was in his hands - it sets me heart a-beating'
Coda:
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So break me heart and then it's o'er, oh break me heart, me dearie
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As I lie in this cold, cold bed, of a single life I'm weary
