– standard tuning –
– no capo –
– chords : –
G : 320033
D : xx0232
C : x32010
[ verse 1 ]
G
well it was on this monday morning and the day be calm and fine
D G D G
to the harbour grace excursion with the boys to have a time
C G
and just before the sailor took the gangway from the pier
C D G
i saw some fellow haul me wife aboard as a volunteer
[ chorus ]
G
oh me , oh my , i heard me old wife cry
D G D G
oh me , oh my , i think i’m gonna die!
C G
oh me , oh my , i heard me old wife say ,
C G D G
“i wish i’d never taken this excursion around the bay”
[ verse 2 ]
we had fourteen hundred souls aboard , oh what a splendid sight!
left stong and regimental to make our spirits bright
and meself being in the double , when a funny things they’d say
they choke themselves from laughing when they’d see us in the bay
[ chorus ]
[ verse 3 ]
me wife she got no better , she turned a sickly green
i fed her cake and candy , fat pork and kerosene
castor oil and sugar of candy , i rubbed pure oil on her face
and i said she’ll be a dandy when we reaches harbour grace!
[ chorus ]
[ verse 4 ]
my wife she got no better , my wife me darling dear
the screeches from her trollear could hear in carbonear
i tried every place in harbour grace ,
tried every store and shop ,
to get her something for a cure or take her to the hop
[ chorus ]
[ verse 5 ]
she died below the brandy’s as we were coming back
we buried her in the ocean , wrapped up in a union jack
so now i Am a single man , in search of a pretty face
and the woman that says she’ll have me , i’m off for harbour grace!
[ chorus ]
– standard tuning –
– no capo –
– chords : –
G : 320033
D : xx0232
C : x32010
[ verse 1 ]
G
well it was on this monday morning and the day be calm and fine
D G D G
to the harbour grace excursion with the boys to have a time
C G
and just before the sailor took the gangway from the pier
C D G
i saw some fellow haul me wife aboard as a volunteer
[ chorus ]
G
oh me , oh my , i heard me old wife cry
D G D G
oh me , oh my , i think i’m gonna die!
C G
oh me , oh my , i heard me old wife say ,
C G D G
“i wish i’d never taken this excursion around the bay”
[ verse 2 ]
we had fourteen hundred souls aboard , oh what a splendid sight!
left stong and regimental to make our spirits bright
and meself being in the double , when a funny things they’d say
they choke themselves from laughing when they’d see us in the bay
[ chorus ]
[ verse 3 ]
me wife she got no better , she turned a sickly green
i fed her cake and candy , fat pork and kerosene
castor oil and sugar of candy , i rubbed pure oil on her face
and i said she’ll be a dandy when we reaches harbour grace!
[ chorus ]
[ verse 4 ]
my wife she got no better , my wife me darling dear
the screeches from her trollear could hear in carbonear
i tried every place in harbour grace ,
tried every store and shop ,
to get her something for a cure or take her to the hop
[ chorus ]
[ verse 5 ]
she died below the brandy’s as we were coming back
we buried her in the ocean , wrapped up in a union jack
so now i Am a single man , in search of a pretty face
and the woman that says she’ll have me , i’m off for harbour grace!
[ chorus ]
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