Fiddler's Green
Traditional

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


[chorus]
        G        D            G
Wrap me up in me oilskins and blanket
   C           G             D
No more on the docks I'll be seen
     C                          G
Just tell me old shipmates, I'm taking a trip, mates
    D                        D7        G
and I'll see you some day on Fiddler's Green
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    G         C          G                Em
Now 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
          C                           G           D
Where the skies are all clear and the dolphins do play
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And the cold coast of Greenland is far, far away


[chorus]
        G        D            G
Wrap me up in me oilskins and blanket
   C           G             D
No more on the docks I'll be seen
     C                          G
Just tell me old shipmates, I'm taking a trip, mates
    D                        D7        G
and I'll see you some day on Fiddler's Green
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          G             C                 G       Em
Where the skies are all clear and there's never a gale
             G       C              G              D
And the fish jump on board with one swish of their tail
          C                            G          D
Where you lie at your leisure, there's no work to do
        G           C          G           D
and the skipper's below making tea for the crew


[chorus]
        G        D            G
Wrap me up in me oilskins and blanket
   C           G             D
No more on the docks I'll be seen
     C                          G
Just tell me old shipmates, I'm taking a trip, mates
    D                        D7        G
and I'll see you some day on Fiddler's Green
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         G           C            G            Em
When you get back on dock and the long trip is through
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There's pubs and there's clubs and there's lassies there too
          C                            G          D
Where the girls are all pretty and the beer it is free
            G          C           G          D
And there's bottles of rum growing from every tree


[chorus]
        G        D            G
Wrap me up in me oilskins and blanket
   C           G             D
No more on the docks I'll be seen
     C                          G
Just tell me old shipmates, I'm taking a trip, mates
    D                        D7        G
and I'll see you some day on Fiddler's Green
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       G           C          G         Em
Now I don't want a harp nor a halo, not me
     G         C           G            D
Just give me a breeze on a good rolling sea
     C                         G        D
I'll play me old squeezebox as we sail along
         G           C          G         D
With the wind in the rigging to sing me a song


[chorus]
        G        D            G
Wrap me up in me oilskins and blanket
   C           G             D
No more on the docks I'll be seen
     C                          G
Just tell me old shipmates, I'm taking a trip, mates
    D                        D7        G
and I'll see you some day on Fiddler's Green
[]