DAVY
Capo 5

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My name is Davy,   though some have called me King of Fools,
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For I laid down my tools and I went away
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On a sailing ship on a cold grey day,
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For the Stranger in my soul was telling me to go
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  And seek the world around. He said...

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Davy,   Davy, your heart is wild, your heart is free.
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Davy,   Davy, go sing your songs beyond the sea
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Beyond the sea.



I've been a sailor, many's the tall ship I've sailed in,
With my mandolin, 'neath harbour lights,
And I've sung for the moon on moonless nights,
And in those dingy harbour bars I've played the lusty Tar -
Many's the bay that I've sailed in.


I've been a wanderer, in every sweet and bitter land,
And on some desert sand I've longed somehow
For a homeland breeze on a homeland brow,
And there's some times I've been alone with thoughts of going home
When the High Stranger, he came to me, and he said...


When I'm an old man, may the West wind carry me safe home.
Just a plain gravestone, and a place to lie
In a homeland field 'neath a homeland sky,
But there's a long way yet to go, and sometimes I feel as though
This journey will never end.