Key: A minor
Verse 1
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Now as I was a -walk
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ing on a May morning,
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And sat down by
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a tall lofty tree,
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For to hear two lovers talk
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and hear what they'd got to say,
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And to find out something
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And if T stands for Thomas,
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J -O -N stands for John,
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and it's W -E -N -M stand
s for my sweet William,
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because he is a clever young man.
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Come and sit down with me,
together on the grass,
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sit down on the grass so very green.
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It's a long three quarters of a year,
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since together you and I have been seen.
And it's T stands for Thomas
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I suppose, J -O
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-N stands for John,
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and it's W -E -N -M stand
s for my sweet William,
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because he is a clever young man.
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No, I'll not sit with you
together on the grass,
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and your heart wasn't any longer mine.
And his T stands for Thomas,
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suppose.
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J -O -N stands for John.
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And his W -E -N -M stand
s for my sweet William,
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because he is a clever young man.
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Oh, then I'll go and climb a lofty,
lofty tree
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And I'll rob a small bird of its nest
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I'll get married to the lass I love best
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suppose,
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And his W -E -N -M stand
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Be cause he is a clever young man
Oh, then I'll go and climb
a taller tree than that
And I'll hurry a far richer nest
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And if ever I should then come
down without having a fall
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I'll get married to the lad I love best
I suppose
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J -O -N stands for John
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And it's W -E -N -M stand
s for my sweet William
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Because he is a clever young man
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And it's W -E -N -M,
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Because he is a clever young man
Because he is a clever young man
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