Tom: Bm
Bm D G D Bm F# G D
Bm F# G D Bm D G D
D F# Bm G
Come on my friends. Through out the land.
D F# Bm G D
Take this, advice from me.
F# Bm G
Quit your drinkin', that old brandy.
D F# D Bm
Don't live like Frank Dupree.
F# Bm G
Frank he was captured, and he went to trial.
D F# Bm G
The judge said, you'll never be free.
D F#m D Bm
You'll be hung on the gallows tree.
Em Bm
Mother and father, won't you come here.
Em F# D
Come see the last, of your son.
F# G Bm
Do you see what the ramblin and drinkin the rum.
G D
And the spoiled life has done.
F# Bm G
Lookin at my mother, these words she said to me.
D F# Bm G
Oh son. Oh son, what have you done.
D D Bm
That you've be hung on the gallows tree.
F#
Well I've courted many girls
Bm G
With a dark and rollin eyes.
D F# Bm G
I ask my love, for to marry me.
D F# D Bm
And no was her reply.
Em Bm
We walked along quite easily.
Em F# D
From the hills we came on down.
Am F# Bm
I stabbed her with my little thin knife.
G D
And she fell off on the ground.
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D F# Bm G x4
D Am D
F# Bm G
So listen to, these words I say.
D F# Bm G
Don't let, yourself become.
D F# Bm G
A lover, of this dreadful life.
D F# D
And a drinker of the rum.
