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I'm a troubled young man, my friend, as you ever did see
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For I married a damsel, her age, it was scarce twenty-three
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I'm sorry to tell you, I married this false minded one
          C        F             G         F            C
For she's left me alone and gone off with another young man


[Verse 2]
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Now the day we were wed she said, "I went on a spree"
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The neighbour next door, she swore, was better than me
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They go out every night and stay dancing the morning away
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And the pair leave me there to fair the best that I may


[Verse 3]
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Well, three weeks we were wed when this lassie, I took her to town
           F           C                 G
Expenses I paid on the way, I gave her a crown
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I met an old friend and he pulled me in for the drain
    C             F            G          F          C
And while we were there she prepared, ran off on the train


[Instrumental]
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[Verse 4]
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When I found she was gone, like a madman, I rushed through the square
                F        C                     G
I'll find out a hole and trying to tear out my hair
  C                       F             C            F
A neighbour named Ned, he stuck out his hand for the gore
         C          F             G          F       C
"Has you wife gone away, will she never come back anymore?"


[Verse 5]
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Buys an acre of land, I might, if I'd a pig and a cow
             F              C                      G
A duck and a drake, with no one to take care of us now
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I selled them all off, I declare, for I'm tired for my life
        C         F        G         F             C
Let the ladies to dance so long, and look for your wife, (yelp)


[Outro]
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