Key: G major•
Verse 1
Am
G
Am
Cold and raw the
Am
Em
Bleak in the morning early
Am
G
All the trees were hid in snow
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G
Dagl'd by winter yearly
C
Dsus4
G
Gentleman riding o'er the heather
Am
G
Met with a farmer's daughter
C
G
Her rosy cheeks and her bonny brow
Verse 2
Am
G
Quickly he saluted me
G
C
G
He asked me where I went so soon
G
C
G
I told him, to the next market town
Verse 3
Am
G
"In this purse, sweet girl," says he
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Em
"T wenty pounds lie fairly
Am
G
Seek no further one to buy
Am
G
For I'll take all your barley
C
G
Twenty more would buy delight
Am
Dsus4
Your body I love so dearly
G
C
G
If you would lay with me all night
Interlude 1
Am
G
Am
Em
Am
G
Am
Dsus4
G
C
G
Am
G
C
G
Am
Verse 4
Am
G
"If twenty pounds could buy the globe
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Em
It's this I'd never do, sir
Am
G
Or were me kin as poor as Job
Am
G
I would not raise 'em so, sir
C
G
If I lay with you this night
Am
G
We'd get a young child together
Verse 5
Am
G
He told me he had married been
Am
Em
Fourteen years and longer
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G
Or else he'd take me for his own
Am
Dsus4
G
And tie the knot much stronger
C
G
I bade him then, no further roam
Am
G
But manage his wedlock fairly
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsAm G Em C Dsus4
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