Let No Man Steal Your Thyme chords by Traditional

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,
       F          C      Dm
Sweet flowers he gave to me:
            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.