Chords for Steeleye Span - (3/3) 30 June 1971. Live on Ainsdale Beach nr Southport, England.

[G] The female drummer, and this version is from Yorkshire, from the singing of the Waterstones, that's where we got it.
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_ _ _ [C] [Bb] I'm a rumblin' drummer, [F] the lads [Gm] had me to play [C] upon the ra-ba [G]-da-ba-da [F] With my jolt, [Bb] the wind so [C] slender, and my fingers [Bb] so small I [F] could play [G] upon the ra [C]-ba-da, the best of them _
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_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ And so [Gm] many were the pranks [F] that I saw [Bb] among the fringes, [F] the boldly did I fight, [G] my voice all war-rung as a [C] wedge, and the [F] inflection of my trousers so often did I smile
To think I lived with a thousand men in a vague and [G] open wild, [F] with a thick-hired [Bb] cap and [C] feather, likewise [Bb] my rattle and drum
They'd have [F] me to [C] play upon the ra-ba-da-ba-da With [F] my gentle [Bb] winks, the [C] slender, and my fingers [Bb] so small I could [F] play [G] upon the ra-ba [C]-da, the best of them all
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[F] _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ But they never [Bb] found me secret [C] out until [Bb] this very hour, and [F] they sent [Gm] me off to land into this entry at the tower, when a young girl fell in love with [F] me and she found [Bb] that I was a maid
She went [F] on to be all [C] the same, the secret [G] she betrayed, [F] with a fine [Bb] cap and feather, likewise my rattle and drum
[F] They'd have me to play upon the ra-ba [G]-da-ba-da [F] With my gentle winks, the slender, and my fingers [Bb] so small I could [Am] play [G] upon the ra-ba [F]-da, the best of them [C] all
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_ _ _ [C] _ _ Here I'm buttoned up [Bb] my red [F] tunic and they found that I [Bb] was true, it's a [A] shame, he says, to lose a pretty drummer [G] boy like you
[F] So now I [Bb] must return [C] to my mab and [Bb] dad at home, and along with my [G] boy comrade, [C] no longer [Gm] can I roam
With a fine cap and feather, likewise my [Bb] rattle and drum [F] They'd have [G] me to play upon the ra-ba-da-ba-da With my gentle [Bb] winks, the slender, and my fingers so small I could [Am] play [G] upon the ra-ba [C]-da, the best of them all
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