Key: Db major
Verse 1
C
F
Beautiful, beautiful brown eyes.
C
G
Beautiful, beautiful brown eyes.
C
F
Beautiful, beautiful brown eyes.
G
C
I'll never love blue eyes again.
F
Willie, my darling, I love you.
C
G
Love you with all of my heart.
C
F
We could have been married,
G
C
but liquor has kept us apart.
F
Beautiful, beautiful brown eyes.
C
G
Beautiful, beautiful brown eyes.
C
F
Beautiful, beautiful brown eyes.
G
C
I'll never love blue eyes again.
I guess you recognize those three voices.
E
C
That was the three little Carter sisters
singing beautiful brown eyes in harmony
and now here's the Carter's back
E
B
E
and his sweet fern
Down in the meadow so long
B
You're singing while the moonlight
E
is shining so clear
A
E
But I know he's away in a far distant land,
B
E
a land that's over the sea
So fly to him singing your sweet little song
B
E
and tell him to come back to me
Sweet Fern, Sweet Fern,
Sweet Fern,
Sweet Fern
B
E
Oh, tell me is my darling still true?
Sweet Fern, Sweet Fern,
Sweet Fern,
B
E
Sweet Fern, I'll be just as happy as you
Oh, tell me, Sweet Fern,
is he thinking of me
B
E
And the promise he made long ago
He said he'd return from over the sea
B
E
Oh, why do the years roll so slow
A
E
I know he's away in a far distant land,
B
E
the land that's over the sea.
We'll fly to him singing
your sweet little song
B
E
and tell him to come back to me.
Sweet Fern, Sweet Fern,
Sweet Fern,
Sweet Fern,
B
E
Oh tell me, is my darling still true?
Sweet Fern, Sweet Fern,
Sweet Fern,
B
E
Sweet Fern, I'll be just as happy as you.
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