Key: A major
Verse 1
and the stars give light,
that has caused him to stay,
While this fair miss,
worries alone, lone, lone.
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This fair miss, she worries alone.
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Her own true love come at last,
and he come very fast,
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come tripplin' through the plain.
O, this fair miss she arose,
and she drew on her clothes,
to let her own true lover in, in, in,
to let her own true lover in.
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My pretty little chicken,
my pretty crowin' chicken,
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pray don't you crow before day.
I'll make your wings of the
yellow -beaten gold,
your comb of the silver so gay, gay, gay.
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Your comb of the silver so gay.
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But this chicken proved
false -hearted,
for she thought it had come day,
and he traveled by the light of the moon,
moon, moon.
He traveled by the light of the moon.
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She saddled up her milk -white steed,
at the length of a long summer's day,
day, day,
the length of a long summer's day.
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My own true love,
my sweet turtle dove,
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when will I see you again?
enter in yonder's green,
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and the sky it shall shed no more rain,
rain, rain,
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the sky it shall shed no more rain. you
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