The Jeannie C.

by Stan Rogers
Type:: Diatonic
Posted by:: leems

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Come all ye lads, draw near to me, that I be not forsaken
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This day was lost the Jeannie C. and my living has been taken
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I'll go to sea no more  

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We set out his day in the bright sunrise, the same as any other
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My son and I and old John Price in the boat named for my mother
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I'll go to sea no more