Biography:
Barbara Dickson is a Scottish singer, best known for her stage and concert performances.
Dickson was born in Dunfermline. Her singing career started in folk clubs around her native Fife in the sixties, exposing her to a rich combination of traditional and contemporary music. In the early seventies, she sang at a Liverpool folk club run by a young student teacher called Willy Russell. He showed Barbara the first draft of what would later become the award winning musical, ‘John, Paul, George, Ringo….
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Barbara Dickson - My Johnny Was A Shoemaker
CAPO: 7th Fret
[INTRO:] Am
[VERSE 1:]
F G Am
My Johnny was a shoemaker and dearly he loved me
C G Am
My Johnny was a shoemaker, but now he's gone to sea
F G Am G C
With pitch and tar to soil his hands
Am F G C G
And to sail across the sea, stormy sea
Am F G Am F G Am F G Am
And sail across the stormy sea______
[VERSE 2:]
F G Am
His jacket was a deep sky blue and curly was his hair
C G Am
His jacket was a deep sky blue, it was, I do declare
F G Am G C
For to reef the topsails up against the mast
Am F G C G
And to sail across the sea, stormy sea
Am F G Am F G Am F G Am
And sail across the stormy sea______
[VERSE 3:]
F G Am
Someday he'll be a captain bold with a brave and a gallant crew
C G Am
Someday he'll be a captain bold with a sword and a spyglass too
F G Am G C
And when he has a gallant captain's sword
Am F G C G
He'll come home and marry me, marry me
[VERSE 4:]
Am F G Am
My Johnny was a shoemaker and dearly he loved me
C G Am
My Johnny was a shoemaker, but now he's gone to sea
F G Am G C
With pitch and tar to soil his hands
Am F G C G
And to sail across the sea, stormy sea
Am F G Am F G Am F G Am
And sail across the stormy sea______
CAPO: 7th Fret
[INTRO:] Am
[VERSE 1:]
F G Am
My Johnny was a shoemaker and dearly he loved me
C G Am
My Johnny was a shoemaker, but now he's gone to sea
F G Am G C
With pitch and tar to soil his hands
Am F G C G
And to sail across the sea, stormy sea
Am F G Am F G Am F G Am
And sail across the stormy sea______
[VERSE 2:]
F G Am
His jacket was a deep sky blue and curly was his hair
C G Am
His jacket was a deep sky blue, it was, I do declare
F G Am G C
For to reef the topsails up against the mast
Am F G C G
And to sail across the sea, stormy sea
Am F G Am F G Am F G Am
And sail across the stormy sea______
[VERSE 3:]
F G Am
Someday he'll be a captain bold with a brave and a gallant crew
C G Am
Someday he'll be a captain bold with a sword and a spyglass too
F G Am G C
And when he has a gallant captain's sword
Am F G C G
He'll come home and marry me, marry me
[VERSE 4:]
Am F G Am
My Johnny was a shoemaker and dearly he loved me
C G Am
My Johnny was a shoemaker, but now he's gone to sea
F G Am G C
With pitch and tar to soil his hands
Am F G C G
And to sail across the sea, stormy sea
Am F G Am F G Am F G Am
And sail across the stormy sea______
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