Fiddlers Green

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As I walked by the dockside one evening so rare
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To view the still waters and take the salt air
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I heard an old fisherman singing this song
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Oh take me away boys, my time is not long

[Chorus 1]
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Dress me up in my oilskins and jumper
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No more on the docks I'll be seen
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Just tell my old ship-mates
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I'm taking a trip, mates
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And I'll see you someday in Fiddler's Green

[Verse 2]
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Oh Fiddler's Green is a place I've heard tell
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Where the fishermen go if they don't go to Hell
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Where the weather is fair and the dolphins do play
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And the cold coast of Greenland is far, far away

[Chorus 2]
G                 D            G
Dress me up in my oilskins and jumper
   C           G             D
No more on the docks I'll be seen
     C
Just tell my old ship-mates
    G
I'm taking a trip, mates
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And I'll see you someday in Fiddler's Green

[Verse 3]
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Where the sky's always clear and there's never a gale
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Where the fish jump on board with a swish of their tail
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Where you lie at your leisure, there's no work to do
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And the skipper's below making tea for the crew

[Chorus 3]
G                 D            G
Dress me up in my oilskins and jumper
   C           G             D
No more on the docks I'll be seen
     C
Just tell my old ship-mates
    G
I'm taking a trip, mates
    D                                 G   G C G
And I'll see you someday in Fiddler's Green

[Verse 4]
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When you get back in dock and the long trip is through
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There's pubs and there's clubs and there's lasses there too
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Where the girls are all pretty and the beer is all free
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And there's bottles of rum growing from every tree

[Chorus 4]
G                 D            G
Dress me up in my oilskins and jumper
   C           G             D
No more on the docks I'll be seen
     C
Just tell my old ship-mates
    G
I'm taking a trip, mates
    D                                 G   G C G
And I'll see you someday in Fiddler's Green

[Verse 5]
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Oh I don't want a harp nor a halo, not me
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Just give me a breeze and a good rolling sea
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And I'll play my old squeezebox as we sail along
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With the wind in the rigging to sing me the song

[Chorus 5]
G                 D            G
Dress me up in my oilskins and jumper
   C           G             D
No more on the docks I'll be seen
     C
Just tell my old ship-mates
    G
I'm taking a trip, mates
    D                                 G   G C G
And I'll see you someday in Fiddler's Green