The Girl On The Jersey Ferry by Ralph McTell
Key: CC | Capo: 0fr |  Left-Handed 

    


Verse 1
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Right from the start let's get one thing straight
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When it comes to the heart you can't legislate
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Funny the things a fellow will remember sometimes
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Like the scene from the movie Citizen Kane
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One short moment with me remains
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Funny the things a fellow will remember sometimes
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When Bernstein says now you take me
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Stuck in my mind one memory
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I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry
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As we pulled out another ferry pulled in
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A second between them was all it could have been
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And on it was a girl waiting to get off
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A white dress is what she had on
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One second later she was gone
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She never saw me at all,she carried a white parasol
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That was in eighteen ninety six
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And I bet a month hasn't gone by since
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That I haven't thought of that girl on the Jersey ferry
Instrumental
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Verse 2
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Now it's nineteen forty one
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Nigh half a century been and gone
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And I still remember that girl with the white dress on
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A fleeting glimpse of chances missed
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Destiny or fates cruel twist
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She'd never even know that I exist,
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How about that
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Time is the ticket and the years the toll
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Did I mention she carried a white parasol
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Funny the things a fellow will remember sometimes
Outro
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