Chords for Kate Rusby - The Collier Recruit

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[G#] _ _ _ [C#] _ _ What's the matter with you, me [G#] lass?
And [C#]
where's your dashing Jimmy?
_ Them soldier boys who picked him [G#] up
And [C#] taken him far from me
Last payday he [G#m] went into town
And them red [G#] _ -coated [C#] fellas
_ Enticed him in and made him drunk
And he'd better gone to the _ gallows
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_ [C#] _ [G#] _ _ _ [C#] The very sight [G#] of his cockade
[C#] It sets us all a _ [G#]-cryin'
[C#] And me, I [G#] nearly _ fainted [C#] twice
I thought that I was dyin'
Me father said [F#] he'd pay the smarts
[Fm] And he'd room for the [G#] golden guinea
[C#] But his sudden swore he'd kiss the [G#] book
[C#] So [G#] now they've got [C#] you and _ me
_ And _ Jimmy _ [G#] talks about the wars
[C#] It's worse than death to hear _ him
I must go out to hide my [G#] tears
[C#] Because I cannot bear
_ A brigadier or a grenadier
[B] [G#m] They said they're [G#] sure to make [C#] him
So now he jibes and cracks his [G#m] jokes
And [C#] bids me [Cm] not [C#] forsake _ [B] _ [F#] him _
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_ _ _ _ As I walk towards the unstable [G#m] field
[C#] Below where I once did see [C] [G#m] him
[C#] I think of Jimmy, [G#] he went there
[C#] But it was all a dream
He held the very [F#] coils were [G#m] burnt
So when this [C#] fire around me bent
The nickel _ almost was in his hands
It sets me heart to beating
_ So break me heart and then [G#] it's all
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Oh break me heart, me [G#] deary
As I lie [C#] in this [G#m] cold, cold bed
[C#] Of a single life I'm weary
_ Oh break me heart and then [G#] it's all
Oh break me heart, me _ deary
As I lie in this cold, [C#] cold bed
Of a single life I'm weary
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