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Song Name: The Unfortunate Rake By: Brendan Gleeson
Posted By: The_Iron_Corpse Difficulty: Beginner
Key: C Genre: Irish
Harp Type: Diatonic
Created: 2023-03-03 21:06:06 Modified: 2023-03-03 21:06:48


Song:

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As I went a-walking, down by the loch
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As I went a-walking, one monring of late
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Who should I spy but, my old dear comrade
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Wrapped in white flannel, so hard was his fate


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I boldly stepped up to, and kindly did ask him
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Why are you wrapped in, flannel so white?
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"My body was injured, and sadly disordered"
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"All by a young woman, mine own heart's delight."


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"For had she but told me, when she disordered me"
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"Had she but told me of it at the time"
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"I might have got salts, or pills of white mercury"
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"But now I'm cut down, in the height of my prime."


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"Get six pretty maidens, to carry my coffin"
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"Six pretty maidens, to bear up my pall"
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"And give to each of them, bunches of roses"
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"So they do not smell me, when they go along"