When I Was On Horseback
Steeleye SpanVersion1
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Chords in this song
Strum
D-DU-UDU
When I was on horseback, wasn't I pretty
When I was on horseback, wasn't I gay
Wasn't I pretty when I entered Cork city
And met with my downfall on the fourteenth of may
Six jolly soldiers to carry my coffin
Six jolly soldiers to march by my side
It's six jolly soldiers take a bunch of red roses
And for to smell them as we go along
Beat the drum slowly and play the pipes only
Playing the deadmarch as we go along
And bring me to Tipperary and lay me down easy
I am a young soldier that've never done wrong
Repeat first verse
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Readable chord sheet for When I Was On Horseback by Steeleye Span
When [Am]I was on horseback, w[G]asn't I pretty When [Am]I was on horseback, w[C]asn't I [Am]gay Wasn't I pretty when I entered Cork [C]city And met with my d[G]ownfall on the fourteenth of [Am]may S[Am]ix jolly soldiers to c[G]arry my coffin S[Am]ix jolly soldiers to m[C]arch by my [Am]side It's six jolly soldiers take a b[C]unch of red [Am]roses A[C]nd for to s[G]mell them as [Em]we go al[Am]ong Beat the drum slowly and play the pipes only Playing the deadmarch as we go along And bring me to Tipperary and lay me down easy I am a young soldier that've never done wrong Repeat first verse