G                              

What ails you my daughter dear

G        

your eyes are so dim

G 

have you had any sore sickness

G

or yet been sleeping with a man



G                   

I have not had any sore sickness

G      

but I know what's ailing me

G                            C

I thinking of my own true love

G                    C

he plows the raging sea

G                    C

he plows the raging sea



G         Am       C         D        

be he a lord or a duke or a knight

G              D        G       

or a man of wealth of fame

G                           C

or is he one of my sailor lads

G                      C

come tell me now his name



G          Am       C       D

he is no lord or a duke or knight

G              D         G

or a man of wealth and fame

G                          C

he is one of your sailor lads

G                         C

and john barbour is his name



G       Am          C       D   

now if John Barbour is his name

G          D           G

a lowly sailor man is he

G                           C

and if John Barbor is his name

G                    C

then hanged he will be

G                    C

than hanged he will be





G            Am       C       D    

the king he calls his sailors all

G          D        G

by one by two by three

G                                C

John Barbour was the first he called 

G                      C

but the last came was he



G        Am      C       D

when he came a trippin down

G          D              G

he was clothed in all in white

G                             C

his hair were like the roses red

G                          C

and his teeth were ivory brite



G        Am            C    D    

he paid their wages with a smile

G            D            G 

when John Barbour he did see

G                              C

if i was a woman if I were a man

G                         C

then bedfellows we would be



G          Am        C       D

will you marry my daughter Jane

G          D         G 

and take her by the hand

G                            C

will you come and dine with me

G                       C

take charge of all my land



G        Am           C      D

I will marry your daughter Jane

G           D             G

and I'll take her by the hand

G                          C

I will come and dine with you

G                            C

but to hell with all your lands

G            Am       C        D

if you can give her one gold piece

G             D       G                        

then I can give her three

G                      C

for I am bold John Barbour

G                     C

and I plow the raging sea

G                  C

I plow the raging sea

G                  C

I plow