[Intro]
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[Verse]
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Some rival has stolen my true love away
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So I in old England no longer can stay
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I will swim the wide ocean around my fair breast
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To find out my true love, the one I love the best
[Verse]
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And when I have found out my joy and delight
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I will welcome him kindly by day and by night
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For the bells shall be ringing and the drums make a noise
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For to welcome my true love with ten thousand joys
[Verse]
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Here's a health to all lovers that are loyal and just
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Here's confusion to the rival that lives in distrust
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For it's I'll be as constant as a true turtle dove..
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And it's never will I prove false to my love
[Instrumental]
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A D A D Em D A D
[Verse]
A D A D
Some rival has stolen my true love away
A D A D
So I in old England no longer can stay
D7 Bm Em Bm
I will swim the wide ocean around my fair breast
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To find out my true love, the one I love the best