Key: D
Introduction:
Dm C
Come all you girls, where'er you be,
F C Dm
Who flourish in your prime
C Dm C
Beware, take care if your garden is fair
Dm C Dm C
Let no man steal your thyme
Dm Am Dm
Let no man steal your thyme
Dm C
For when your thyme is pulled and gone
F C Dm
He'll care no more for you
C Dm C
And every place where your thyme went to waste
Dm C Dm C
Will all spread over with rue
Dm Am Dm
Will all spread over with rue
Dm C
I gave my love my summer?s yield
F C Dm
and all my autumn?s store.
C Dm C
From of my skill he took his fill
Dm C Dm C
and asked for more and more,
Dm Am Dm
and asked for more and more.
Dm C
He fed to me of honeyed wine
F C Dm
and all we sowed in May,
C Dm C
but come new spring he went wandering.
Dm C Dm C
From me he then did stray,
Dm Am Dm
from me he then did stray.
Dm C
The gardener's son was standing by,
C Dm C
The violet blue and the iris too,
Dm C Dm C
and the red, red rose made three,
Dm Am Dm
and the red, red rose made three.
Dm C
But I refused that red rose bush
F C Dm
and I planted the willow tree,
C Dm C
so all the world may plainly see
Dm C Dm C
how my love slighted me,
Dm Am Dm
how my love slighted me.
Dm C
A woman is a branching tree
F C Dm
and a man?s a clinging vine,
C Dm C
and from her bounty so carelessly
Dm C Dm C
he?ll take what he can find,
Dm Am Dm
he?ll take what he can find.