Country Life chords by The Watersons

Chorus 1:
A                       D       E
I like to rise when the sun she rises,
A            D  E
early in the morning
   A                    D           E
And I like to hear them small birds singing,
A                  D  E
Merrily upon their laylums
    A                        D       E
And hurrah for the life of a country boy,
       A             E         A
And to ramble in the new mowed hay.

Verse 1:
A                       D       E
In spring we sow at the harvest mow
    A                       D          E
And that is how the seasons round they go
      A              D        E
but of all the times choose I may
       A                    E         A
I'd be rambling through the new mowed hay.

Chorus 2:
    A                       D       E
For I like to rise when the sun she rises,
A            D  E
early in the morning
   A                    D           E
And I like to hear them small birds singing,
A                  D  E
Merrily upon their laylums
    A                        D       E
And hurrah for the life of a country boy,
       A             E         A
And to ramble in the new mowed hay.

Verse 2:
   A               D     E
In winter when the sky's gray
A                      D     E
we hedge and ditch our times away,
       A               D          E
but in summer when the sun shines gay,
        A                    E         A
We'd go ramblin' through the new mowed hay.

Chorus 3:
    A                       D       E
For I like to rise when the sun she rises,
A            D  E
early in the morning
   A                    D           E
And I like to hear them small birds singing,
A                  D  E
Merrily upon their laylums
    A                        D       E
And hurrah for the life of a country boy,
       A             E         A