Home Boys Home

	  		
 


verse 1: 
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There was an apprentice, lived in Strawberry Lane 
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She was loved by her master and her mistress the same 
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Until a young sailor came sailing o'er the sea 
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And that was the start of her misery 


verse 2: 
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This young maid being an urfin, she thought it no harm 
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For to go into bed for to keep his back warm 
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He hugged her and he kissed her and he called her his 'Dear' 
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Saying, "I wish that this night were as long as a year" 


verse 3: 
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It was early next morning the sailor arose 
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And into her apron he put handfuls of gold 
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Saying, "Take this and keep it for the wrong that I have done 
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For this night I may have left you with a daughter or a son" 


verse 4: 
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"And if it be a girl child, dandle her on yer knee 
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And if it be a male child, call him after me 
    C            D                            G   Em 
And when he is a man, you can dress him up in blue 
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And he'll skip up the rigging like his daddy used to do 


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And it's home boys home, and it's home I'd like to be 
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It's home for awhile in my own country 
          C           D                     G    Em 
Where the Oak and the Ash and the bonny Elm tree 
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They are all growing green in my own country