The Clancy Brothers And Tommy Makem - The Butcher Boy Chords

[Verse 1]
          E                A
In London city where I did dwell
          D                  E
A butcher boy, I loved right well
           F#m            Bm
He courted me, my life away
             E               A
But now with me, he will not stay
 
[Verse 2]
          E               A
I wish, I wish, I wish in vain
         D            E
I wish I was a maid again
       F#m                 Bm
A maid again I ne'er will be
               E              A
'Till cherries grow on an ivy tree
 
[Verse 3]
          E          A
I wish my baby it was born
            D              E
And smiling on its daddy's knee
            F#m                  Bm
And me poor girl to be dead and gone
                    E                  A
With the long green grass growing over me
 
[Verse 4]
            E              A
She went upstairs to go to bed
            D             E
And calling to her mother said
            F#m               Bm
"Give me a chair 'till I sit down
              E                 A
And a pen and ink 'till I write down"
 
[Verse 5]
         E                  A
At every word she dropped a tear
             D                  E
And at every line cried "Willie dear -
           F#m               Bm
Oh, what a foolish girl was I
            E                 A
To be led astray by a butcher boy"
 
[Verse 6]
           E                     A
He went upstairs and the door he broke
             D              E
He found her hanging from a rope
             F#m                  Bm
He took his knife and he cut her down
           E                      A
And in her pocket, these words he found
 
[Verse 7]
            E                     A
Oh, make my grave large, wide and deep
             D                    E
Put a marble stone at my head and feet
           F#m               Bm
And in the middle, a turtle dove
                   E                     A
That the world may know, that I died for love