Twiddles Tabulatur von Seadogs

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When the ships all go a-sailing and the men are off and gone
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What about the women who are up and left alone
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Do you think we sit and twiddle thumbs until our men come home
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There's other things to twiddle when a girl's left on her own.



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Twiddly-i dee-li dee-lo, twiddly-i dee-lay
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There's lots of times a man will leave you broken with dismay
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Twiddly-i dee-li dee-lo, twiddly-i dee-lay
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There's other things to twiddle when your man has gone away.



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Well, I remember Nelly, she was young and she was gay
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She won the heart of Captain Dan but then he sailed away
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He left her high and dry with just a kiss upon the chin
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But as his ship went sailing out, another ship sailed in.



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Twiddly-i dee-li dee-lo, twiddly-i dee-lay
         D                                 A           E
There's lots of times a man will leave you broken with dismay
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Twiddly-i dee-li dee-lo, twiddly-i dee-lay
        D                                 A              E-D-E
There's other things to twiddle when your man has gone away.


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Then there was Lucinda Brown, as fair as any maid
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Her true love went a voyaging, a sailor man by trade
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"Oh, keep the fire burning, love," those were the words he spoke
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So she found herself another man to keep the fire stoked.


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Twiddly-i dee-li dee-lo, twiddly-i dee-lay
         D                                 A           E
There's lots of times a man will leave you broken with dismay
E                         D
Twiddly-i dee-li dee-lo, twiddly-i dee-lay
        D                                 A              E-D-E
There's other things to twiddle when your man has gone away.


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When Lucinda's man came back and knocked upon her door
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She was as glad to see him as she'd ever been before
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He left her lying in the bed, but Lucy didn't care
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'Course the poor guy in the closet sure could use a little air.


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Twiddly-i dee-li dee-lo, twiddly-i dee-lay
         D                                 A           E
There's lots of times a man will leave you broken with dismay
E                         D
Twiddly-i dee-li dee-lo, twiddly-i dee-lay
        D                                 A              E-D-E
There's other things to twiddle when your man has gone away.


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Oh you hear a lot of stories 'bout the sailors and their sport
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About how every lad has got a girl in every port
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But if you added two and two, you'd figure out right quick
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That's just because the lasses have a lad on every ship.


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Twiddly-i dee-li dee-lo, twiddly-i dee-lay
         D                                 A           E
There's lots of times a man will leave you broken with dismay
E                         D
Twiddly-i dee-li dee-lo, twiddly-i dee-lay
        D                                 A              E-D-E
There's other things to twiddle when your man has gone away.



E                        D
Twiddly-i dee-li dee-lo, twiddly-i dee-lay
         D                                 A           E
There's lots of times a man will leave you broken with dismay
E                         D
Twiddly-i dee-li dee-lo, twiddly-i dee-lay
              D                  A                 E       D    E
There's other willy's willing to twiddle when your willy's gone away.