title: There Is A Tavern In The Town
key: Folk
harp type: Chromatic
genre: C
skill: Any

Trad. British folk
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Key: C
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There is a tav-ern in the town,
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in the town,
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And there my true love sits him down,
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sits him down,
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And drinks his wine as mer-ry as can be,
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And nev-er, nev-er thinks of me.
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Fare thee well, for I must leave thee,
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Do not let this part-ing grieve thee,
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And re-mem-ber that the best of friends
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must part, must part
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A-dieu, a-dieu, kind friends
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a-dieu, yes, a-dieu,
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I can no long-er stay with you,
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stay with you,
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I’ll hang my heart
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on the weep-ing wil-low tree,
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And may the world go well with thee.
He left me for a damsel dark,
damsel dark,
Each Friday night they used to spark,
used to spark,
And now my love once true to me,
Takes that dark damsel on his knee.
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Oh! dig my grave both wide and deep,
wide and deep,
Put tombstones at my head and feet,
head and feet,
And on my breast carve a turtle dove,
To signify I died of love.
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