Bm              A
As I roved out one morning
    G               A
All in the blooming spring
  Bm          A
I overheard a damsel
   G          A
So grievously sing
       Bm            A
Saying cruel were my parents
    G            A
Who did me sore annoy
     Bm               A             G           A
They would not let me tarry with my bonny Irish boy


[Interlude]
| Bm   | A   | G   | A   |


[Verse 2]
    Bm               A
His hair is like the chestnut brown
    G                A
His eyes as black as sloes;
      Bm            A
He is meek in his behaviour
   G             A
Wherever that he goes
      Bm               A
He is well-sized, both neat and wise
       G              A
Like a maiden's chastity
     Bm            A
If I had my will I would be still
   G              A
In my love's company


[Interlude]
| Bm   | A   | G   | A   |  x4


[Verse 3]
   Bm            A
If I had all the riches now
     G                 A
That great men have in store
     Bm           A
'Tis freely I'd bestow them
       G           A
On the man that I adore;
    Bm          A
His beauty so entangled me
  G           A
I never can deny
       Bm         A
In the arms of my labouring boy
  G                A
I mean to live and die


[Outro]
| Bm   | A   | G   | A   |  x4
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