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
