The Lark in the Morning
Traditional

[chorus]
    Am                      G     G/F#    Em
The lark in the morning she rises off her nest
    C                            Am      G      Am
And flies up in the air with the dew all on her breast
    Am                           G        G/F#    Em
And like the jolly ploughboy she whistles and she sings
         C                            Am      G      Am
She goes home in the evening with the dew all on her wings
[]

    Am                     G    G/F#    Em
Oh, Roger the ploughboy he is a dashing blade
        C                            Am     G     Am
He goes whistling and a-singing over yonder leafy shade
   Am                                G        G/F#  Em
He met with dark haired Susan, she's handsomе I  declare
      C                          Am        G      Am
She's far morе enticing than the birds all in the air


[chorus]
    Am                      G     G/F#    Em
The lark in the morning she rises off her nest
    C                            Am      G      Am
And flies up in the air with the dew all on her breast
    Am                           G        G/F#    Em
And like the jolly ploughboy she whistles and she sings
         C                            Am      G      Am
She goes home in the evening with the dew all on her wings
[]

   Am                             G     G/F#   Em
As they were coming home from the rakes of the town
    C                              Am        G        Am
The meadows been all green and the grass had been cut down
   Am                            G      G/F#     Em
As I should chance to tumble all in the new-mown hay
         C                               Am     G        Am
Oh, it's kiss me now or never love, this bonnie lass did say


[chorus]
    Am                      G     G/F#    Em
The lark in the morning she rises off her nest
    C                            Am      G      Am
And flies up in the air with the dew all on her breast
    Am                           G        G/F#    Em
And like the jolly ploughboy she whistles and she sings
         C                            Am      G      Am
She goes home in the evening with the dew all on her wings
[]


     Am                            G    G/F#     Em
When all of twenty long weeks were over and were past
    C                                 Am         G         Am
Her mammy chanced to notice how she'd thickened 'round the waist
    Am                               G      G/F#    Em
"It was the handsome ploughboy", the maiden she did say
        C                           Am     G        Am
"For he caused me for to tumble all in the new-mown hay"


[chorus]
    Am                      G     G/F#    Em
The lark in the morning she rises off her nest
    C                            Am      G      Am
And flies up in the air with the dew all on her breast
    Am                           G        G/F#    Em
And like the jolly ploughboy she whistles and she sings
         C                            Am      G      Am
She goes home in the evening with the dew all on her wings
[]


         Am                             G    G/F#    Em
Here's a health to y'all ploughboys wherever you may be
     C                             Am      G      Am
That likes to have a bonnie lass a-sitting on his knee
       Am                               G       G/F#       Em
With a jug of good strong porter you'll whistle and you'll sing
      C                          Am     G    Am
For a ploughboy is as happy as a prince or a king


[chorus]
    Am                      G     G/F#    Em
The lark in the morning she rises off her nest
    C                            Am      G      Am
And flies up in the air with the dew all on her breast
    Am                           G        G/F#    Em
And like the jolly ploughboy she whistles and she sings
         C                            Am      G      Am
She goes home in the evening with the dew all on her wings
[]