Tonart: C minor
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Oh heart that
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my love, no longer can you stay
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And the bugle horns are sounding clear
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We must march away
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We're ordered down to Portsmouth
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Oh, it's many a weary mile
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To join the British Army
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On the banks of the
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Nile
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Oh, leave, dear, rest with me
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I beg you, please don't go
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Don't tear my heart to cinder, love
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Don't fill my heart with woe
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Oh, the parting of our love would be
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Like parting with my life
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Stay at home with me, dear love
I'll be alright
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Nancy, dearest
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Nancy, I'm that we'd never do
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Oh, the government has ordered
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and we are bound to go
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Oh, the government has ordered
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And the queen, she gives command
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I am bound for our dear land
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To sail in a foreign land
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Then I'll cut my long yellow hair off
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And I'll go along with you
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I'll dress myself in uniform
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and I'll see Egypt, too
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I'll march beneath your banner
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and fortune it will smile
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And we can comfort one another
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on the banks of the
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Nile
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But your waist is too slender
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And your fingers are too small
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In the sultry sands of Egypt,
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your lovely cheeks would spoil.
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Oh, the cannons loud will rattle,
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and the blazing bullets fly,
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And the silver trumpets howl they sound
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to hide the dismal cry
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Then curse it be,
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Whichever they began
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They've robbed us of our
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sweethearts
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And their bodies they feed the limes
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All the dry and sandy deserts
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Which are the banks of the Nile
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Akkorde & SongtexteAm D G Em C
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