Johnny Todd

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T:Johnny Todd
B:Singing Together, Autumn 1968, BBC Publications
F:http://www.folkinfo.org/songs
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w:John-ny Todd he took a no-tion For to sail the o-cean wide,
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w:And he left his true love be-hind him,
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w:Weep-ing by the Liv-er-pool tide.
W:Johnny Todd he took a notion
W:For to sail the ocean wide,
W:And he left his true love behind him,
W:Weeping by the Liverpool tide.
W:
W:For a week she wept full sorely,
W:Tore her hair and wrung her hands,
W:Then she met another sailor,
W:Walking on the Liverpool sands.
W:
W:"O fair maid, why are you weeping
W:For your Johnny gone to sea?
W:If you wed with me tomorrow
W:I will kind and constant be.
W:
W:"I will buy you sheets and blankets,
W:I'll buy you a wedding ring,
W:You shall have a gilded cradle
W:For to rock your baby in."
W:
W:Johnny Todd came back from sailing,
W:Sailing o'er the ocean wide,
W:But he found that his fair and false one
W:Was another sailor's bride.
W:
W:All young men who go a-sailing
W:Or to fight the foreign foe,
W:Don't you leave your love like Johnny,
W:Marry her before you go.

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