Angelina Baker

C Am C F G C C Am I used to work, I used to sing so happy all the day C Am C Till Angelina Baker came and stole my heart away. Am Angelina Baker, she’s the girl I love so true, C F G C Oh, Angelina Baker, I would give my heart to you. 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. C Am Angelina Baker lives on the village green, C Am C The way I always loved her beats all you’ve ever seen. Am Angeline is handsome, Angeline is tall, C F G C She broke her little ankle dancing in the hall. C Am Angelina liked the boys as far as she could see, C Am C I waited by her window but she never looked at me. Am I bought her pounds of cherries and a ribbon for her hair, C F G C But when I went to find her Angelina wasn’t there. 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. C Am C F G C C Am I’ve seen my Angelina in the springtime and the fall, C Am C I’ve seen her in the cornfield and I’ve seen her at the ball. Am And every time I met her she was smiling like the sun C F G C But now I’m left to weep a tear ’cause Angelina’s gone. C Am Early in the morning on a lovely summer’s day C Am C I asked for Angelina and they said she’d gone away. Am I don’t know where to find her cause I don’t know where she’s gone C F G C She’s left me here to weep a tear and lay on the old jawbone. 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. C Am C F G C C Am Bought Angeline a brand new dress, neither black nor brown, C Am C The colour of the stormy sky before the rain came down. Am Sixteen horses in my team, the leader he was blind. C F G C I dreamed that I was dying, I saw my Angeline. 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. 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.