Misc Traditional – Let No Man Steal Your Thyme (Ukulele)

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Come all you girls, where'er you be,

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Who flourish in your prime

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Beware, take care if your garden is fair

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For when your thyme is pulled and gone

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He'll care no more for you

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And every place where your thyme went to waste

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Will all spread over with rue

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Will all spread over with rue

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I gave my love my summer’s yield

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and all my autumn’s store.

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From of my skill he took his fill

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and asked for more and more,

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and asked for more and more.

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He fed to me of honeyed wine

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and all we sowed in May,

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but come new spring he went wandering.

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From me he then did stray,

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from me he then did stray.

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The gardener's son was standing by,

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Sweet flowers he gave to me:

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The violet blue and the iris too,

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and the red, red rose made three,

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and the red, red rose made three.

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But I refused that red rose bush

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and I planted the willow tree,

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so all the world may plainly see

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how my love slighted me,

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how my love slighted me.

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A woman is a branching tree

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and a man’s a clinging vine,

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and from her bounty so carelessly

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he’ll take what he can find,

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he’ll take what he can find.