IntroGFGFGVerse 1FG
In Norway, there sits a maid
AmFGC
For you, my baby, she begins
GFG
Little know I my child's father
DmFGFG
Or if land or sea he's livin' in
Verse 2FG
Then there arose at her bed-feet
AmFG
And a grumbly guest, I'm sure it was he
CGFG
Saying, here am I, thy child's father
DmFGFG
Although that I am not comely
Verse 3FG
I am a man upon the land
AmF
I am a selchie in the sea
CGFG
And when I am in my own country
DmFGFG
My dwellin' is in Shule Skerry
Verse 4FG
And he hath taken a purse of gold
AmFG
He hath put it upon her knee
CGFG
Saying give to me my little wee son
DmFGFGF
And take thee up thy nurse's fee
Verse 5]
GFG
And it shall come to pass on a summer day
FAmG
When the sun shines hot on every stone
CGFG
That I shall take my little wee son
DmFG
And I'll teach him for to swim in the foam
Verse 6]
FG
And you will marry a gunner good
FG
And a proud good gunner I'm sure he'll be
CGFG
And he'll go out on a May morning
DmFG
And he will kill both my wee son and me
Verse 7]
FG
And lo, she did marry a gunner good
FG
And a proud good gunner I'm sure it was he
CBmFG
And the very first shot that ere he did shoot
DmFGFGFG
He killed the son and the great selchie
Verse 8]
FG
In Norway, there sits a maid
CFAmGC
For you, my baby, she begins
GFG
Little know I my child's father
DmFGBmCFG
Or if land or sea he's livin' in
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