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Come all you wild young men
       C       F       G
And a warning take by me
 C      F        C/D          G
Never lead your single life astray
    C        G    Am
Or into bad company

As I myself have done
Being all in the month of may
When I was pressed by a sea captain
A privateer to trade

To the East Indies we were bound
To plunder the region main
And it's many a brave and a galliant ship
We sent to a watery grave

Off a freeport we did steer
Our provisions to renew
When we did spy a bold man of war
sailing three feet to our two
 
And she fired in cross our bow
Heave to and don't refuse
Surrender now into our command
Or else your lives you'll lose

But our decks they were splattered with blood
And our canons did loudly roar
And broadside and broadside a long time we lay
'Til we could fire no more
          C               D              G
  And a thousand times I wished myself again
           C          G            Am
 All alone with me Polly on the shore