Cruisin Round Yarmouth Chords
by Liam Clancy
Cruisin Round Yarmouth by Liam Clancy is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, C and D. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: G C G D G
verse 1:
C
While cruisin' 'round Yarmouth one day for a spree
G D
I met a fair damsel, the wind blowing free
G C G
"I'm a fast-going clipper, my kind sir", says she
C G
"I'm ready for cargo, my hold is quite free"
C
Singing, fal de-ral laddie, right fal de-ral lay
G D G
Fal de-ral laddie, right fal de-ral day
verse 2:
C
What country she came from, I could not tell which
G D
But by her appearance I thought she was Dutch
G C G
Her flag wore its colours, her masthead was low
C G
She was round at the quarters and bluff in the bow
C
Singing, fal de-ral laddie, right fal de-ral lay
G D G
Fal de-ral laddie, right fal de-ral day
verse 3:
C
She took me upstairs and her tops'l she lowered
G D
In a neat little parlour she soon had me moored
G C G
She laid in her foresails, her staysails and all
C G
With her lily-white hand on my reef-tackle fall
C
Singing, fal de-ral laddie, right fal de-ral lay
G D G
Fal de-ral laddie, right fal de-ral day
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