Great Big Sea The Chemical Workers Song Lyrics

The Chemical Workers Song Lyrics

CHORUS:
Oh won't you come along with me love
Come along with me!
Come
for one night and be my wife
And come along with me
Well it is of the
jolly butcher as you might plainly see
As he roved out one morning in search
of company
He went into a tavern and a fair girl he did see
Ah come for
one night, be my wife, oh come along with me
He called for liquor of the
best
And he makes such fortune play
Come have a drink, it will make us
think
That it is our wedding day
CHORUS
Well he called for a candle to
light their way to bed
And when he had her in the room these words to her he
said,
"A sovereign I will give to you, for to embrace your
charms"
And all that night, that fair young maid, lied in the butchers'
arms
CHORUS
Oh, Early the next morning be sure it went his way
He
looked unto that fair young maid and unto her did say,
"That sovereign
that I gave to you, do not think me strange,
Well that sovereign that I gave
to you will you give me back me change!"
CHORUS
Well about a 12
months later he roved out once more
And he went into the tavern where he'd
often been before
He wasn't in there very long when his fair maid he did
see
And she brought forth a baby three months old and placed it on his
knee
When he saw the baby, he began to curse and swear
And he said unto
that fair young maid, "Why did you bring him here?!"
"Well he
is your own, kind sir", she said, "Do not think me strange,
Well
that sovereign that you gave to me, I gives you back your
change!!"
CHORUS x 2