Chords Info
- Tunning: Standard(G C E A)
- Chords: D, A7sus4, A, A7, Bm, G, Dsus4
- Key: D
- Capo: no capo
[Verse 1] D A7sus4 A A7 Bm G A "What's the matter with you, me lass, and where's your dashing Jimmy?" D A Dsus4 A7sus4 D "Them soldier boys have picked him up and taken him far from me. D A7 Bm G A Last pay-day he went into town and them redcoated fellows, D A7sus4 A A7 Bm A D 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, D A Dsus4 A7sus4 D And me, I nearly fainted twice - I thought that I was dyin'. D A7 Bm G A Me father said he'd pay the smart and he'd run for the Golden Guinea, D A7sus4 A A7 Bm A D But sergeant swore he'd kissed the book, so now they've got young Jimmy. [Verse 3] D A7sus4 A A7 Bm G A When Jimmy talks about the wars, it's worse than death to hear him. D A Dsus4 A7sus4 D I must go out and hide me tears, because I cannot bear him. D A7 Bm G A A Brigadier or a Grenadier he says they're sure to make him, D A7sus4 A A7 Bm A D 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, D A Dsus4 A7sus4 D I think on Jimmy hewing there, but it was all a dream. D A7 Bm G A He hewed the very coils we burn, so when this fire I'm leetin', D A7sus4 A A7 Bm A D To think the lumps was in his hands - it sets me heart a-beating' [Coda] D A Bm G A So break me heart and then it's o'er, oh break me heart, me dearie, D A Bm A D As I lie in this cold, cold bed, of a single life I'm weary
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