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When first I came to Louisville, some pleasure there to find,
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A damsel there from Lexington was pleasing to my mind.
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Her rosy cheeks, her ruby lips, like arrows pierced my breast
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la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la
la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la

la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la *)

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I've got a wife and five little children

I'm gonna take a trip on the big McMillan
     Em
With Sarah Jane
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Sarah Jane
      C          G
Ain't nothin' to do
       G      /f#   Em
But to sit down and sing
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And rock about my Sarah Jane.

Whistle done blows and the fiddler squalls
Captain gone through the hole-in-the-wall
Oh Sarah Jane
Sarah Jane
Ain't nothin' to do
But to set down and sing

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Oh fare thee well my own true love
G                        D
Fare thee well but for a while
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The ship is waitin' an' the wind blows high
    G    C/g    G           C/g
An' I am bound away for the sea,
     G
Mary Ann.
          C/g    G           C/g       G    C/g   G    C/g
    (I am bound away for the sea, Mary Ann)

Ten thousand miles away from home
Ten thousand miles or more
The sea may freeze an' the earth may burn
If I never no more return to you,
Mary Ann.