Angelina Baker

The Norfolk Broads

Key of C · Chords: I IV V vi

Intro

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Verse 1

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I used to work, I used to sing so happy all the day
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Till Angelina Baker came and stole my heart away.
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Angelina Baker, she’s the girl I love so true,
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Oh, Angelina Baker, I would give my heart to you.

Chorus

C                      Am
Angelina Baker, age of forty-three,
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Fed her sugar candy but she wouldn’t marry me.
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Angelina Baker, Angeline I know,
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Should have married Angeline twenty years ago.

Verse 2

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Angelina Baker lives on the village green,
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The way I always loved her beats all you’ve ever seen.
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Angeline is handsome, Angeline is tall,
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She broke her little ankle dancing in the hall.

Verse 3

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Angelina liked the boys as far as she could see,
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I waited by her window but she never looked at me.
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I bought her pounds of cherries and a ribbon for her hair,
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But when I went to find her Angelina wasn’t there.

Chorus

C                      Am
Angelina Baker, age of forty-three,
C                           Am             C
Fed her sugar candy but she wouldn’t marry me.
                           Am
Angelina Baker, Angeline I know,
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Should have married Angeline twenty years ago.

Solo

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Verse 4

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I’ve seen my Angelina in the springtime and the fall,
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I’ve seen her in the cornfield and I’ve seen her at the ball.
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And every time I met her she was smiling like the sun
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But now I’m left to weep a tear ’cause Angelina’s gone.

Verse 5

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Early in the morning on a lovely summer’s day
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I asked for Angelina and they said she’d gone away.
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I don’t know where to find her cause I don’t know where she’s gone
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She’s left me here to weep a tear and lay on the old jawbone.

Chorus

C                      Am
Angelina Baker, age of forty-three,
C                           Am             C
Fed her sugar candy but she wouldn’t marry me.
                           Am
Angelina Baker, Angeline I know,
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Should have married Angeline twenty years ago.

Solo

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Verse 6

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Bought Angeline a brand new dress, neither black nor brown,
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The colour of the stormy sky before the rain came down.
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Sixteen horses in my team, the leader he was blind.
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I dreamed that I was dying, I saw my Angeline.

Chorus

C                      Am
Angelina Baker, age of forty-three,
C                           Am             C
Fed her sugar candy but she wouldn’t marry me.
                           Am
Angelina Baker, Angeline I know,
C                            F      G     C
Should have married Angeline twenty years ago.

Chorus

C                      Am
Angelina Baker, age of forty-three,
C                           Am             C
Fed her sugar candy but she wouldn’t marry me.
                           Am
Angelina Baker, Angeline I know,
C                            F      G     C
Should have married Angeline twenty years ago.
N.C.
Should have married Angeline twenty years ago.