Key: C# minor
Verse 1
C#m
B
C#m
E
The Lark in the morning,
B
G#m
she rises off her nest
C#m
E
Goes up in the air
B
C#m
with a chew all on her breast
Unlike the jolly plowboy,
B
G#m
she whistles and she sings
B
C#m
with a chew all on her wings
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G#m
he is a roving blade
C#m
E
Goes whistling and singing
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C#m
through yonder long shade
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G#m
she's handsome, I declare
C#m
E
She's far more enticing
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C#m
than the birds all in the air
He's met with dark -haired Susan,
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G#m
she's handsome, I declare
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E
And he's bought her rolls of ribbons
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C#m
for to tie all in her hair
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G#m
she rises off her nest
C#m
E
Goes up in the air
B
C#m
with the jewel on her breast
B
G#m
she whistles and she sings,
C#m
E
Comes home in the evening
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C#m
with her jewel on her wings.
B
G#m
from the wakes of the town,
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E
The meadows being mown
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C#m
and the grass had been cut down,
And they should chance to stumble
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G#m
all in the new morn' hay,
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E
And they'd kiss me now and
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C#m
E
B
G#m
C#m
ever,
E
B
C#m
this funny lass did say.
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G#m
she rises off her nest
C#m
E
Goes up in the air
B
C#m
with the jewel on her breast
B
G#m
she whistles and she sings
C#m
E
Runs home in the evening
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C#m
with the jewel on her wings
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G#m
were over and past
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E
Her mammy asked the reason
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C#m
why she'd picken round the waist
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G#m
this bonnie lass, to say
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E
He calls me to tumble
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C#m
all in the new -mown hay
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G#m
this bonny lass to say
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E
He curls, meets a tumble -all
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C#m
in the new -mown hay
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G#m
she writes it off the nest
C#m
E
Goes up in the air
B
C#m
with the jewel on her breast
B
G#m
she whistles and she sings
C#m
E
Comes home in the evening
B
C#m
with the jewel on her wings
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G#m
wherever he may be
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E
B
He likes to have a bonnie lass
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G#m
he'll whistle and he'll sing
C#m
E
The plowboy is as happy
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C#m
as a prince or a king
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G#m
she rises off her nest
E
B
C#m
with her jewel on her breast
And like the jolly bra boy
E
B
G#m
she whistles and she sings,
C#m
E
Comes home in the evening
B
C#m
with the jewel on her wings.
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