There Is A Tavern In The Town

Words and Music by F. J. Adams (1891)

  C
There is a tav-ern in the town,in the town,

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And there my dear love sits him down, sits him down,

      C                    F
And drinks his wine 'mid laugh-ter free,

     G7                      C
And nev-er, nev-er thinks of me

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          G7
Fare thee well, for I must leave thee,

        C
Do not let the part-ing grieve thee,

        G7                                   C     F    C
And re-mem-ber that the best of friends must part, must part


A-dieu, a-dieu, kind friends a-dieu, a-dieu, a-dieu,

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I can no lon-ger stay with you, stay with you,

      C                F
I'll hang my harp on a weep-ing wil-low tree,

    G7                         C
And may the world go well with thee.

    C
He left me for a dam-sel dark, damsel dark,

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Each fri-day night they used to spark, used to spark,

    C                 F
And now my love once true to me,

 G7                            C
Takes that dark damsel on his knee.

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     C
Oh! Dig my grave both wide and deep, wide and deep,

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Put tomb-stones at my head and feet, head and feet,

    C                     F
And on my breast carve a tur-tle dove,

    G7                  C
To sig-ni-fy I died of love.

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