Chords for Gordon Lightfoot - Songs the Minstrel Sang

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_ [B] _ _ [C#] _ [F#m] It's almost over, [A] it's almost [B] done, and you can't put the blame [C#] on anyone.
[F#m] It's almost easy [A] and it's almost [B] fun, but you get tired [C#] of it.
Hey, there it [F#m] is, I'm on from me, [A] was a song the [E] minstrel sang.
[Bm] To the good [F#m] of Robin Hood, and [C#] Mary [F#m] Ellen, and all the gang.
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_ _ His name was [A] Dean, and his shop was clean, [B] and his suit was the sheer [C#m] of evergreen.
[F#m] Folks he knew [A] had not the favour, [B] when the sheriff was there [C#] they were.
Hey, there it is, [F#m] in the month of June, [A] was a song the [E] minstrel sang.
[Bm] To the good [F#] of Robin Hood, his [C#] good name had a [F#m] place to run.
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He lost a [A] mill in a rundown jail, [B] but the kind of a [C#] scene where he never failed.
[F#m] There was no [A] man on the sea or [B] land, who could get Mary [C#] Ellen on the trail.
Hey, there it [F#m] is, in the month of May, [A] was a song the minstrel sang.
[Bm] To the good [F#m] of Robin Hood, [C#m] his name Mary Ellen, and all the gang.
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_ [F#m] _ _ [C#m] _ _ [F#m] _ _ [B] _
_ [F#m] _ _ [B] _ _ [F#m] It's almost over, it's almost [B] done, and you can't put the [C#] blame on Mary [F#m] Ellen.
She almost made it to the fire's [B] gate, but the old wooden bridge wouldn't [C#] elevate.
Hey, there it [F#m] is, in the month of [A] June, was a song the [E] minstrel sang.
[Bm] To the [F#m] good of Robin [C#] Hood, his good name had a [F#m] place to run.
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