Misc Musicals – Ruddigore - To A Garden Full Of Posies (Guitar)

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In C because it's from memory/I'm a scrub and it's my first time transcribing. Please do suggest changes. [Aria] [Verse 1]

C    C              F
To a garden full of posies

F      C       Dm     C
Cometh one to gather flowers,

C      C                   F
And he wanders through its bowers

F      C        Dm     F
Toying with the wanton roses,

Dm         G
The wanton roses,

G             Cm         G
Who, uprising from their beds,

G                  Cm        G
Hold on high their shameless heads

G                      Cm
With their pretty lips a-pouting,

G                      Cm
With their pretty lips a-pouting,

N.C.              C    F
Never doubting – never doubting

          G        C4 C
That for Cytherean posies

          F                G  C
He would gather aught but roses!

[Verse 2]

C    C                 F
In a nest of weeds and nettles

F      C  Dm      C
Lay a violet half hidden

C      C                   F
Hoping that his glance unbidden

F         C      Dm     F
Yet might fall upon her petals

Dm         G
Upon her petals,

G                Cm       G
Though she lived alone, apart

G                  Cm        G
Hope lay nestling at her heart

G                    Cm
But alas, the cruel awaking

G                    Cm
But alas, the cruel awaking

N.C.           C       F
Set her little heart a-breaking

          G             C4 C
For he gathered for his posies

     F           G  C
Only roses, only roses.