Chords with lyrics
Intro:
A minorAm G+G A minorAm
Verse:
A minorAm G+G
Cold and raw the North did blow
A minorAm E minorEm
Bleak in the morning early
A minorAm G+G
All the trees were hid in snow
A minorAm E minorEm
Dagl'd by winter yearly
C majorC G+G
Gentleman riding o'er the heather
A minorAm E minorEm
Met with a farmer's daughter
C majorC G+G
Her rosy cheeks and her bonny brow
A minorAm A augmentedA
They made his mouth to water
Verse:
A minorAm G+G
Quickly he saluted me
A minorAm E minorEm
Meaning to shew his breeding
A minorAm G+G
I bowed to him right gracefully
A minorAm E minorEm
His courtesy exceeding
C majorC G+G
He asked me where I went so soon
A minorAm E minorEm
And longed to begin a parley
C majorC G+G
I told him, to the next market town
A minorAm A augmentedA
A-purpose to sell me barley
Verse:
A minorAm G+G
"In this purse, sweet girl," says he
A minorAm E minorEm
"Twenty pounds lie fairly
A minorAm G+G
Seek no further one to buy
A minorAm E minorEm
For I'll take all your barley
C majorC G+G
Twenty more would buy delight
A minorAm E minorEm
Your body I love so dearly
C majorC G+G
If you would lay with me all night
A minorAm A augmentedA
And go home in the morning early"
Instrumental:
A minorAm G+G A minorAm E minorEm
A minorAm G+G A minorAm E minorEm
C majorC G+G A minorAm E minorEm
C majorC G+G A minorAm A augmentedA
Verse:
A minorAm G+G
"If twenty pounds could buy the globe
A minorAm E minorEm
It's this I'd never do, sir
A minorAm G+G
Or were me kin as poor as Job
A minorAm E minorEm
I would not raise 'em so, sir
C majorC G+G
If I lay with you this night
A minorAm E minorEm
We'd get a young child together
C majorC G+G
And you'd be gone ere the nine months end
A minorAm A augmentedA
And where should I find a father "
Verse:
A minorAm G+G
He told me he had married been
A minorAm E minorEm
Fourteen years and longer
A minorAm G+G
Or else he'd take me for his own
A minorAm E minorEm
And tie the knot much stronger
C majorC G+G
I bade him then, no further roam
A minorAm E minorEm
But manage his wedlock fairly
C majorC G+G
And keep his gold for his wife at home
A minorAm A augmentedA
And some other shall have my barley