Merry Ploughboy (2/4; Key: D)

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I am a mer-ry plough-boy__ and I plough the fields all day____

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Till a sud-den thought came to me mind that I should roam a -___way
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Well, I’m sick and tired of slav-er-y__ since the day that I was born___

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So I’m off to join the I. R. A._ and I’m off to____- mor-row morn.____

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Gnd we're all off to Dub-lin in the green, in the green where the hel-mets glis-ten in the sun___
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Where the bay-'nets flash and the rif-les crash to the ec - ho of a Thomp-son gun______

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I'll leave a-side me pick and spade, I'll leave a-side me plough___
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I'll leave a-side me horse and yoke, I no lon - ger need them now____
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I'll leave a - side my Mar-y, she's the girl that I a – dore___
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Gnd I won-der if she'll think of me when she hears the canons roar._____

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Gnd when the war is ov - er,___ and dear old Ire – land’s free____
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I'll take her to the church to wed and a reb-el's wife she'll be_____
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Well some men fight for sil-ver____ and some men fight for gold_____
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But the I.R. A. are fight-ing for the land that the Sax - ons stole._____