Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn chords by Pete Seeger

Chords with lyrics

🎸 Verse 1:
C majorC
I’ll sing you a song and it’s not very long
                  G+G  A minorAm
It’s about a young man who wouldn’t hoe corn
  C majorC     G+G    A minorAm
The reason why I can’t tell
           G+G  A minorAm
This young man was always well


🎸 Verse 2:
  C majorC
He planted his corn in the month of June
          G+G  A minorAm
And by July it was knee high
C majorC            G+G     A minorAm
First of September there came a big frost
               G+G  A minorAm
And all this young man’s corn was lost

🎸 Verse 3:
  C majorC
He went to the fence and there peeked in
                  G+G  A minorAm
The weeds and the grass grew up to his chin
  C majorC            G+G    A minorAm
The weeds and the grass they grew so high
               G+G A minorAm
It caused this young man for to sigh

🎸 Verse 4:
  C majorC
He went down to his neighbour’s door
            G+G A minorAm
Where he had often been before
    C majorC              G+G   A minorAm
Saying “Pretty little miss, will you marry me?
              G+G  A minorAm
Pretty little miss what do you say ”

🎸 Verse 5:
 C majorC
“Here you are a wanting for to wed
             G+G  A minorAm
And cannot make your own cornbread
C majorC        G+G      A minorAm
Single I am and single I’ll remain
          G+G  A minorAm
A augmentedA lazy man I won’t maintain

🎸 Verse 6:
    C majorC
Well he went down to a pretty little wider
              G+G   A minorAm
And I hope by heck that he don’t get her
  C majorC           G+G       A minorAm
She gave him the mitten as sure as you’re born
          G+G      A minorAm
And all because he wouldn’t hoe corn.