Key: C major
Verse 1
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Dm
Bonnie Mae a- shepherd
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C
G
To call the sheep to the fold
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C
Right over the tops of the downs, downs
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C
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Over the tops of the downs
Verse 2
Dm
C
a troop of gentlemen
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C
G
As they were riding by
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Dm
And one of them has lighted down
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C
G
Dm
And he's asked of her the way,
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C
G
He's asked of her the way
Verse 3
on,
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C
you rank riders
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C
G
Your steeds are stout and strong
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Dm
For it's out of the fold I will not go
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C
For fear you'll do me wrong, wrong
Verse 4
Dm
C
by the middle jip
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C
G
And by the green gown sleeve
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Dm
And there he's had his will of her
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G
He's asked of her no leave
Verse 5
Dm
C
G
And I've ridden o'er the downs
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Dm
But the bonniest lass that ever I saw
Verse 6
C
on her head
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C
G
And she's gone lingering home
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G
C
Dm
And all her father said to her
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wrong
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Dm
Now twenty weeks were
Verse 7
Dm
C
G
Twenty weeks and three
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C
G
F
Long for his twinkling eye
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C
F
Interlude 1
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C
F
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Verse 8
Dm
C
and a bonny summer's day
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C
G
For she walked out alone
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Dm
That selfsame troop of gentlemen
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C
Came riding o'er the downs, downs
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C
G
Riding o'er the downs
C
Verse 9
Dm
C
G
Who got the babe in thy arms?"
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C
G
"Oh I've a good man of my own"
Verse 10
Dm
C
G
So loud I hear you lie
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Dm
Remember the misty, murky night
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C
I lay in the fold with thee, with thee
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F
G
I lay in the fold with thee
Verse 11
Dm
C
G
He's set the fair Mae on
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C
She'll ne'er call them again, again
Verse 12
Dm
of
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Achentrioch
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G
With fifty plough an d three
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And he's taken away the bonniest lass
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C
In all the south country, country
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In all the south country
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