Underneath Her Apron chords by Steeleye Span

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
C majorC  G+G  C majorC G+G

Verse:
 C majorC           FF        G+G
A augmentedA pretty young girl all in the month of May
G+G
A augmentedA gathering rushes just at the break of day
   A minorAm              G+G
But before she's come home, she has born a little son
     C majorC       G+G       C majorC G+G
And she's rolled him all underneath her apron

Verse:
  C majorC                  FF       G+G
All in the first part of the night, when all were fast asleep
G+G
This pretty little baby, oh, it began to weep
   A minorAm                G+G
"Oh, what's that little babe that's a-crying out so shrill
    C majorC    G+G        C majorC G+G
In the bedroom among the pretty maidens?"

Verse:
  C majorC             FF          G+G
"Oh father, dear father, it's nothing then," said she
 G+G
"It's just a little bird that my sister gave to me
     A minorAm              G+G
And I'll build for it a nest and I'll warm it on my breast
    C majorC         G+G      C majorC  G+G
So that it won't wake you early in the May morning"

Verse:
  C majorC                  FF        G+G
All in the last part of the night, when they were fast asleep
G+G
This pretty little baby, again began to weep
   A minorAm               G+G
"Oh, what's that little babe that's crying out so clear
    C majorC    G+G        C majorC G+G
In the bedroom among the pretty maidens?"

Verse:
  C majorC             FF         G+G
"Oh father, dear father, it's nothing then" said she
 G+G
"It's just a little baby that someone gave to me
    A minorAm           G+G
Let it lie, let it sleep this night along o' me
     C majorC        G+G      C majorC  G+G
And I'll tell to you its daddy in the May morning"

Verse:
   C majorC            FF      G+G
"Oh, was it by a black man or was it by a brown
G+G
Or was it by a ploughing-boy, a-ploughing up and down
   A minorAm            G+G
That gave you the stranger you wear with your new gown
      C majorC     G+G        C majorC G+G
That you've rolled up underneath your apron?'

Verse:
  C majorC              FF      G+G
"It wasn't by a black man and it wasn't by a brown
G+G
But it was by a sailor lad, that ploughs the watery main
    A minorAm             G+G
And was him gave me the stranger I wear with my new gown
     C majorC     G+G       C majorC G+G
That I've rolled up underneath me apron"

Verse:
   C majorC               FF       G+G
"Oh, was it in the kitchen got, or was it in the hall?
G+G
Or was it in the cowshed or up against the wall?
 A minorAm            G+G
I wish I had a firebrand to burn the building down
     C majorC    G+G    C majorC  G+G
Where you met with him on a May morning"

Verse:
  C majorC                 FF       G+G
"It wasn't in the kitchen-room got, it wasn't in the hall
G+G
It wasn't in the cowshed, nor up again the wall
    A minorAm                G+G
It was down by yonder spring, where them pretty birds do sing
    C majorC    G+G    C majorC  G+G
That I met with him on a May morning"