Tom: C
Introdução:
C
verse 1
F G7 C
Cold blows the wind to my true love
C G7 G G7
And gently drops the rain
C G7 C G G7
I've never had but one true love
C F G7 C
And in green-wood he lies slain
verse 2
F G7 C
I'll do as much for my true love
C G7 G G7
As any young girl may
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I'll sit and mourn all on his grave
C F G7 C
For a- twelve month and a day
verse 3
F G7 C
And when twelve months and a day was passed
C G7 G G7
The ghost did rise and speak
C G7 C G G7
"Why sittest thou all on my grave
C F G7 C
And will not let me sleep? "
verse 4
F G7 C
"Go fetch me water from the desert
C G7 G G7
And blood from out of a stone
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That a young man never has known. "
Verse 5
F G7 C
"How oft on yonder grave, sweetheart
C G7 G G7
Where we were wont to walk
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The fairest flower that e'er I saw
C F G7 C
Has withered to a stalk."
Verse 6
F G7 C
"The stalk is withered and dead, sweetheart
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The flower will never return.
C G7 C G G7
And since I've lost my own true love
C F G7 C
What can I do but yearn."
Verse 7
F G7 C
"When will we meet again, sweetheart.
C G7 G G7
When will we meet again? "
C G7 C G G7
"When the autumn leaves that fall from the trees
C F G7 C
Are green and spring up again."