Capo: I
This can be played with easier chords by transposing down 2 half steps.
GmDGmD7Gm
Come all ye wild young people and listen to my song
DGmD7Gm
I will unfold concerning gold that guides so many wrong
BbFGmD
Young Emma was a servant maid who loved a sailor bold
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Who ploughed the main much gold to gain for his love so we've been told.
GmDGmD7Gm
He ploughed the main for seven years and then return-ed home
DGmD7Gm
As soon as he set foot on shore unto his love did go
BbFGmD
He went unto young Emma's house his gold all for to show
GmDGmD7Gm
That he had gained upon the main all in the lowlands low.
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GmDGmD7Gm
Young Edwin he sat drinking till time to go to bed
DGmD7Gm
He little thought a sword that night would part his body and head
BbFGmD
Young Edwin he got into bed and scarcely was asleep
GmDGmD7Gm
When Emily's cruel parents soft into his room did creep
GmDGmD7Gm
They stabbed him, dragged him out of bed and to the sea did go
DGmD7Gm
They sent his body floating, down to the lowlands low
BbFGmD
"Oh father, where's the stranger came here last night to lay?"
GmDGmD7Gm
"Oh he is dead no tales can tell" the father he did say.
GmDGmD7Gm
The fishes of the ocean swim o'er my lover's breast
DGmD7Gm
His body rolls in motion I hope his soul's at rest
BbFGmD
The shells upon the sea shore rolling to and fro
GmDGmD7Gm
Remind me of young Edwin that ploughed the lowlands low
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So many a day she passed away and tried to ease her mind
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Crying "Oh my friends, my love is gone and I am left behind"
BbFGmD
And Emma broken hearted was to Bedlam forced to go
GmDGmD7Gm
Her shrieks were for young Edwin that ploughed the lowlands low.