Chords for Fairport Convention - Babbacombe Lee Tracks 1-6

[G] _ John Lee, the jury has found you guilty of willful murder,
and the sentence of the court upon you is that you be taken from this place to a lawful prison,
and there to a place of execution, and there suffer death by hanging,
and that your body be buried within the precincts of the prison in which you shall be last confined.
And may the Lord have mercy on your soul.
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_ _ _ _ _ Little [F] did I think when [G] the judge [Am] first spoke [G] those awful [F] [G] words to me,
that I [F] would feel [G] again the cold [Am] winds blow, [G] and the heart would be [F] like a [G] leaf.
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[Am] I was born [C] to lead a life of sorrow,
[Am] and the sweet breath that I [Em] had to breathe.
_ [G] Oh, [F] being tired and [G] weary [Am] of the market _ [G] _
_ [F] _ [G] place, _ _ _ _
_ when I [F] was [F#m] fifteen my [G] father [Am] called to me,
saying, [G] now you [F] are a man [G] and all men work, _
_ there's a [F] lady [G] and they say her [Am] name's Miss _ Deas,
[G] a Polish very [F] old [G] indeed, a nurse. _
_ [E] _ _ [Am] For eighteen months I [C] worked for her up at the [Am] Glen,
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_ [Am] but time goes slowly [C] when you're thinking [Am] properly.
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There _ _ _ were boats drifting in [Am] the harbor,
[G] there were sailors talking in the town,
_ _ that's [F] the life for a [G] boy [A] who wants to wander,
[G] for a man who [F] doesn't want [G] to settle down.
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[C] _ [D] For a man who doesn't want to settle down.
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_ [Em] _ _ _ [G] I was sixteen now and full of [F] life, life is full of [D] things to see,
[G] grown up in my little [Am] town and [Em] only seen so few. _ _
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_ So it's off I went to Newton [F] Abbot to get myself [D] a visa [G] signed,
father took them and tore [C] them up, saying [B] that's no life for [E] a boy of mine.
[F] John [Am] my son, [Gm] don't [C] join the Navy,
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there's no [Em] good in it [A] I [A#] know,
plant your [F] seeds [G] on [C] solid ground and [Dm] watch your [A] harvest grow.
_ _ [A#] John [F] my son, [G] don't join [C] the Navy,
[Dm] that's clay that's [Em]
underneath your [A] skin.
[A#] John [F] my son, [G] don't join [C] the Navy,
[Dm] don't go _ [A] leaving your kith _ _ and kin.
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I _ _ must breathe and so some [C] old sir called [G] himself [D] a Enya,
[G] so I would see some foreign [Em] shores and I would be a _ [G] sailor.
So I thought to my mother for a week or [F] more,
and why in the [D] freedom of my [G] way,
I'd rather board the men to favour in the meals at [B] lunch the [Em] very next day.
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