Tom: Em
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[Verse 1]
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I was brought up in Yorkshire and when I was sixteen
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Oh I ran away to London and a soldier I became
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With me fine cap and feather, likewise me rattling drum they learned me to play upon the rubadub-a-dum
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With me gentle waist so slender, me fingers long and small, and to play upon the rubadub the best of them all
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[Verse 2]
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And so many were the pranks that I saw among the French
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And so boldly did I fight, me boys, although I'm but a wench
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And in buttoning up me trousers so often have I smiled
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To think I lay with a thousand men and a maiden all the while
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With me fine cap and feather, likewise me rattling drum they learned me to play upon the rubadub-a-dum
D G Am G Em Am Em
With me gentle waist so slender, me fingers long and small, and to play upon the rubadub the best of them all
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[Verse 3]
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And they never found my secret out until this very hour
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When they sent me off to London to keep sentry o'er the Tower
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When a young girl fell in love with me and she found that I was a maid
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She went up to me officer and me secret she betrayed
[Chorus]
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With me fine cap and feather, likewise me rattling drum they learned me to play upon the rubadub-a-dum
D G Am G Em Am Em
With me gentle waist so slender, me fingers long and small, and to play upon the rubadub the best of them all
Am G Am G G Em Am Em
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[Verse 4]
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He unbuttoned then my red tunic and he found that it was true
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'It's a shame’, he says, 'to lose a pretty drummer boy like you’
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So now I must return to me mum and dad at home
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And along with me bold comrades it's no longer can I roam
[Chorus]
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With me fine cap and feather, likewise me rattling drum they learned me to play upon the rubadub-a-dum
D G Am G Em Am Em
With me gentle waist so slender, me fingers long and small, and to play upon the rubadub the best of them all
Am G Am G G Em Am Em
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