Richard Thompson - Adieu Adieu Chords

[intro]
 
D5
 
[verse]
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Adieu, adieu, hard was my fate,
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I was brought up in a tender state.
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Bad company did me entice,
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and I left off work and took bad advice.
 
[chorus]
 
D     D/F#      G        D/F#     A
Which makes me now to lament and say,
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pity the fate of young felons all,
D       G    A      D
well-a-day, well-a-day.
 
[verse]
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I robbed Lord Goldwyn, I do declare,
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and Lady Masefield in Grosvenor Square,
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I shut my shutters and bid them goodnight,
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then went home to my heart's delight.
 
[chorus]
 
D     D/F#      G        D/F#     A
Which makes me now to lament and say,
D         Bm            G      A
pity the fate of young felons all,
D       G    A      D
well-a-day, well-a-day.
 
[verse]
 
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Before Judge Aldred I was took,
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before Judge Aldred I was tried.
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My Lady Kemp says "this will not do,
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my iron chest you have broken through".
 
[chorus]
 
D     D/F#      G        D/F#     A
Which makes me now to lament and say,
D         Bm            G      A
pity the fate of young felons all,
D       G    A      D
well-a-day, well-a-day.
 
[verse]
 
    D
And when I'm dead and gone to my grave,
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no costly tombstone will I crave.
     D     G         D        A
Six bonny lasses to carry my pall,
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give them broadswords, caps and ribbons all.
 
[chorus]
 
D     D/F#      G        D/F#     A
Which makes me now to lament and say,
D         Bm            G      A
pity the fate of young felons all,
    D       G    A      D   D5
Oh, well-a-day, well-a-day.