Intro: C F C
verse 1:
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When I was a bachelor, I lived all alone
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I worked at the weaver's trade
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And all the harm that ever I've done
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It was courting a serving maid
verse 2:
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I courted her one winter's morn
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A summer's day or two
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And I often times wished her into my arms
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Out of the foggy dew, dew, dew
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And out of the foggy dew
verse 3:
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One night she came to my bedside
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As I lay fast asleep
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She laid her head upon my bed
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And bitterly she did weep
verse 4:
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She wept, she cried, she tore her hair
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Saying, "Oh, what shall I do?
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For this night I'm resolved to sleep with you
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For fear of the foggy dew, dew, dew
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For fear of the foggy dew"
VERSE 5:
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So all the fore part of the night
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How we did sport and play
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All the latter part of the night
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She close in my arms did lay
VERSE 6:
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And when the daylight did appear
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She said, "I am undone"
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Said I, "Fair mad, be not afraid
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For the foggy dew is done, done, done
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Oh, the foggy dew is done
VERSE 7:
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One night she started to moan and to cry
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Said I, "What troubles you?"
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She said, "I'd never have been this way
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If it hadn't have been for you"
VERSE 8:
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I got me boots and me trousers on
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I called my neighbour too
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Ah, but do what we could, we could do her no good
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And she died in the foggy dew, dew, dew
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Oh, she died in the foggy dew
VERSE 9:
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So, now I am a bachelor, I live with my son
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We work at the weaver's trade
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And when I look in his face I can see
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The eyes of that fair young maid
verse 10:
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He reminds me of the winter time
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And of the summer too
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And the many, many times she lay in my arms
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For fear of the foggy dew, dew, dew
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All for fear of the foggy dew