Intro: G D C D x4 Verse: G D C D Oh, I know she rose early, for I heard her sweet singing G D C D Echoing over the flowering heath G D C D She gathered the willow, the elder, the linden G D C D G The holly, the ivy twined into a wreath Instrumental: G D C D x2
Verse: G D C D Oh, the notes you are forming, I long to possess them G D C D They leap from your tongue and ascend on the breeze G D C D Had I risen early from bed in the morning G D C D G Then I would have hold of the notes you release Instrumental: G D C D Verse: G D C D And she gave me the wreath and she sang like a starling G D C D My fingers entwined in her feathery hair G D C D But she shrugged me away and said, "Alasdair, darling G D C D G When a song's on the wind it belongs to the air" Instrumental: G D C D x2 Verse: G D C D See Polly, she sings as she sits at the spinning wheel G D C D Mary, she sings as she skips with her rope G D C D And Johnny, he sings as he fetches the herring creel G D C D G And Billy, he sings as he rolls down the slope Verse: G D C D And the whole house is singing, the whole house is singing G D C D The rafters are ringing, and the timbers are thrown G D C D The whole house is singing, the whole house is singing G D C D G And I overhear them, and this is their song Interlude: D G C D G C D G C D Hmm hmm hmm, hmm hmm hmm hmm, hmm hmm hmm hmm G C D Hmm hmm hmm, hmm hmm hmm hmm, hmm hmm hmm hmm Verse: G C D We are stronger when the moon glows in the sky G C D And the moon causes the tide to rise and rise G C D And the weed carried upon the drawing foam G C D We will gather to bedeck our happy home Outro: G C D Hmm hmm hmm, hmm hmm hmm hmm, hmm hmm hmm hmm G C D Hmm hmm hmm, hmm hmm hmm hmm, hmm hmm hmm hmm
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