John G Gaudie was a C fine young m G an in shetland it was F told
G Many's the crowd in C Lerwick G Town his fiddle and he did ho D ld
They've G danced it up and they've C danced it G down
as he fiddled his tunes aro F und
Of G all the played in C Shetland G Isles no better could be fo D und.
Chorus...
When C John broke the G prison door
The jailer had never seen his D like before
C He ran back to the Lev G enwick shore and wrote himself a D tune...
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