BOSTON TEA TAX SONG

From the American Revolutionary War

Key: G

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I snum I am a Yan-kee lad

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And I guess I’ll sing a dit-ty

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And if you do not rel-ish it

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The more ‘twill be the pit-y

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That is, I think, I should have been

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A plague-y sight more fin-ished man

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If I’d been born in Bos-ton town

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But  I warn’t ‘cause I’m a coun-try man

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Tol-le-lol-de-rid-dle

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Tol-le-lol-de-ray

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But I warn’t ‘cause I’m a coun-try man