The Banks Of The Leopold Canal

C         Am
Time is a ticking my love
F             C
Can no longer stay
          Am
Sounds of the alarms
    F         G
And I must go away
F           C
Ordered out over seas
Am
For many a weary day
       F           C               F       C
To the banks, of a place they call Leopold Canal


   C            Am
Oh, Willie, Sweet Willie
F                   C
Don't leave me here alone
          Am
For I wish to God above,
    F             G
That I was never born
F           C
Parting from you my love
C                    Am
I'd rather be buried alive
       F           C               F                      C
So stay home with me Sweet Willie and I'll be your loving wife


C         Am
Oh Annie, Sweet Annie
F             C
Surely can not stay
          Am
The government has ordered me
    F         G
And I must go away
F            C
The government has ordered me
C             Am
Set up their command
    F           C                  F          C
And I'm bound away my love for the Leopold Canal


 C      Am
Cruel was the war
F             C
When it first began
       Am
Out of Canada
    F         G
We lost many men
F          C
Out of Canada
C                     Am
Men were battered and torn.
  F           C              F       C
Thousands lay dead on Leopold's shore.


C         Am
Sitting in the trenches
F             C
Couldn't help but curse
          Am
This cruel bloody war
    F            G
Had taken me from her
F             C
Taken me from my sweet heart
C                             Am
And the place where I loved to dwell
    F             C                     F               C
And shipped me off to the bloody banks, of the Leopold Canal


C         Am
Time is a ticking my love
F             C
Can no longer stay
          Am
Sounds of the alarms
    F           G
And i must go away
F          C
Ordered out over seas
Am
For many a weary day

       F           C               F         C
To the banks, of a place they call Leopold Canal
       F           C               F         C
To the banks, of a place they call Leopold Canal
       F           C               F         C
To the banks, of a place they call Leopold Canal