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