[INTRO:] G   C   G   D  G

[VERSE 1:]
                                   C
While cruisin' 'round Yarmouth one day for a spree
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I met a fair damsel, the wind blowing free
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"I'm a fast-going clipper, my kind sir", says she
     C                   G
"I'm ready for cargo, my hold is quite free"


[CHORUS:]
                                  C
Singing, fal de-ral laddie, right fal de-ral lay
G                        D          G
Fal de-ral laddie, right fal de-ral day


[VERSE 2:]
                              C
What country she came from, I could not tell which
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But by her appearance I thought she was Dutch
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Her flag wore its colours, her masthead was low
        C                         G
She was round at the quarters and bluff in the bow


[CHORUS:]
                                  C
Singing, fal de-ral laddie, right fal de-ral lay
G                        D          G
Fal de-ral laddie, right fal de-ral day


[VERSE 3:]
                             C
She took me upstairs and her tops'l she lowered
     G                                   D
In a neat little parlour she soon had me moored
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She laid in her foresails, her staysails and all
         C                     G
With her lily-white hand on my reef-tackle fall


[CHORUS:]
                                  C
Singing, fal de-ral laddie, right fal de-ral lay
G                        D          G
Fal de-ral laddie, right fal de-ral day


[INSTRUMENTAL:] G   C   G    D   G   C  G  C   G     C   G   D  G


[VERSE 4:]
                                C
I said, "Pretty fair maid, it's time to give o'er
     G                                   D
For 'twixt wind and water, you've run me ashore
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Me shot-locker's empty, me powder's all spent
  C                          G
I can't fire a shot for it's choked to the vent"


[CHORUS:]
                                  C
Singing, fal de-ral laddie, right fal de-ral lay
G                        D          G
Fal de-ral laddie, right fal de-ral day


[VERSE 5:]
                                 C
Here's luck to the girl with the black curly locks
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Here's luck to the girl who ran Jack on the rocks
       G                      C             G
Here's luck to the doctor who eased all his pain
   C                              G
He squared his main yards, he's a-cruisin' again


[CHORUS:]
                                  C
Singing, fal de-ral laddie, right fal de-ral lay
G                        D          G
Fal de-ral laddie, right fal de-ral day