My Children Are Laughing

X:11526
T:My Children Are Laughing
S:Digital Tradition, chldlaff
B:Collected by Sam Eskin
Z:dt:chldlaff
M:3/4
L:1/8
Q:1/4=100
W:My children are laughing behind my back,
W:My children are laughing behind my back,
W:They sit by the coffin that stands by my bed
W:And they'll be glad when their old man's dead.
W:
W:My children are laughing behind my back,
W:My children are laughing behind my back,
W:They blow out the candles that stand at my head
W:And they'll be glad when their old man's dead.
W:
W:My children are laughing behind my back,
W:My children are laughing behind my back,
W:But I won't die for a long, long time.
W:No, I'm gonna live for a long, long time.
W:
W:I'll sit in my window and drink my gin
W:And be as old as my old ma been,
W:I'll sit in my window and I won't cry,
W:And I'll laugh like hell when my children die!
K:G
D2|G2 G2 G2|G2 F2 E2|F4 A2|A4 D2|\
A2 A2 A2|A2 G2 F2|G4 G2|G4 d2|
e2 e2 e2 |e4 dc|d4 dc|B4 G2|\
A4 A2|d3d c2|B4 A2|G4 z2||

Alternative sources for this tune:

• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/LesterBailey/melnets_big_abc_file/08989
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/OTIS_Irish_Session/melnets_big_abc_file/08989
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/home.quicknet.nl/england/4494
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/mucl.de/~mdoering/dt-songs/0139
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/terra.es/personal8/niltoni/m/1540

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