Tom: D
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Come all ye lads, draw near to me,
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that I be not forsaken
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This day was lost the Jeannie C.
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and my living has been taken
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I'll go to sea no more
[Verse 2]
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We set out this day in the bright sunrise,
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the same as any other
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My son and I and old John Price
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in the boat named for my mother
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I'll go to sea no more
[Verse 3]
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Now it's well you know what the fishing has been,
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it's been scarce and hard and cruel
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But this day, by God, we sure caught cod,
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and we sang and we laughed like fools
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I'll go to sea no more
[Verse 4]
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I'll never know what it was we struck,
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but strike we did like thunder
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John Price give a cry and pitched overside
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Now it's forever he's gone under
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I'll go to sea no more
[Verse 5]
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Now a leak we've sprung, let there be no delay
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if the Jeannie C. we're saving
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John Price is drown'd and slip'd away
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So I'll patch the hole while you're bailing
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I'll go to sea no more
[Verse 6]
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But no leak I found from bow to hold
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No rock it was that got her
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But what I found made me heart stop cold,
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for every seam poured water
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I'll go to sea no more
[Verse 7]
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My God, I cried as she went down
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That boat was like no other
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My father built her when I was nine,
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and named her for my mother
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I'll go to sea no more
[Verse 8]
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And sure I could have another made
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in the boat shop down in Dover
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But I would not love the keel they laid
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like the one the waves roll over
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I'll go to sea no more
[Verse 9]
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So come all ye lads, draw near to me,
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that I be not forsaken
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This day was lost the Jeannie C.
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and my whole life has been taken
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I'll go to sea no more
