Key: G major
Verse 1
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G
C
D
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D
A wager, a wager,
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D
That you'll not go to the Broomfield
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C
till An na may return again
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G
C
D
G
And oh, she cried and oh, she sighed
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G
and oh, she made her moan
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D
Am
Saying, shall I go to the Broomfield till
or shall I stay at home
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C
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D
For if I go on to the Brumfield Hill
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D
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And my maidenhead is gone
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D
C
But if I chance to stay at home
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Am
D
There's thirteen months all in one year
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D
G
As I've heard people say
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D
G
Is the very merry month of May
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D
G
Up there spoke an old witch,
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D
one as she sat all alone
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D
Saying, shall go to the
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Broomfield hill,
and I'll you shall return
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C
For when you get to the
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D
G
you will find your lover's sleep
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D
With his hawk in his hand
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C
He'd take the blossom
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D
from off of the brun
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D
The blossom that smelled so sweet
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C
D
And he'd lay it down all under his head
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C
And all of the soles of his feet
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Am
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There's thirteen months all in one year
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D
As I've heard people say
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C
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D
But the finest month in all the year
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G
Is the very merry month of May
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D
But when she got to the broom -filled hill
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D
With his hawk in his hand
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D
And the brim was all down to his feet
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C
She's taken the blossom
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D
And the more she lay it round
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D
And about the sounder he did sleep,
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C
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D
She stapled the rim from off of her finger,
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D
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And laid it at his right hand,
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For to let him know when he awoke,
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Am
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There's thirteen months all in one year,
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D
As I've heard people say,
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C
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But the finest month in all the year
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Oh, where were you, my good Greystein,
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G
that I have loved so dear?
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D
Why did you not stand and waken me
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Oh, I stand with my feet, master,
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and all my bells I rang,
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But there was nothing could waken you
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till she had been and gone.
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Oh, haste, haste, my good Gracetee,
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Or all the birds in the broom -field hill
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C
Oh, you need not break
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by racing to her home
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No bird flies faster through the wood
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as I've heard people say
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D
But the finest month in all the year
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsD G C Am A
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