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By: Traditional^[1]^[2]

Performed: Bill Keith and Jim Rooney, James Taylor

Capo 2

	A G D A

One morning, one morning, one morning in May

	A G D E

I spied a young couple, they were making their way

	A F#m D A

One was a maiden, so bright and so fair

	A D E A

and the other was a soldier and a brave volunteer

	A G D A
	"Good Morning, Good Morning, Good Morning," said he

	A G D E
	"And where are you going, My pretty lady?"

	A F#m D A
	"I'm going out a-walking on the banks of the sea

	A D E A
	Just to see the waters rise and hear the Nightingale sing."

	A G D A
	Now they had not been standing but a minute or two

	A G D E
	When out of his knapsack a fiddle he drew

	A F#m D A
	And the tune that he played made the valleys all ring

	A D E A
	"O hark," cried the maiden, "hear the Nightingale sing."

	A G D A
	"O maiden, fair maiden, it's time to give o'er."

	A G D E
	"O no, kind soldier, please play one tune more

	A F#m D A
	For I'd rather hear your fiddle at the touch of one string

	A D E A
	Than to see the waters rise and hear the Nightingale sing."

	A G D A
	"O soldier, kind soldier, will you marry me?"

	A G D E
	"O no, pretty maiden, that never shall be;

	A F#m D A
	I've a wife now in London and children twice three

	A D E A
	Two wives and the army's too many for me."

	A G D A
	"Well, I'll go back to London and I'll stay there for a year

	A G D E
	It's often that I'll think of you, my little dear

	A F#m D A
	And if ever I return, it will be in the spring

	A D E A
	Just to see the waters rise and hear the Nightingale sing

	A D E A
	To see the waters rise and hear the Nightingale sing."

One Morning In May