Carter Family - Sweet Fern guitar chord

Artist: Carter Family

Title: Sweet fern

tabb'd by: palamin0@

Carter Family - Sweet fern

(capo 3rd fret)

(verse 1)

D

Springtime is coming sweet lonesome bird

A A7 D

Your echo in the woodland I hear

Down in the meadow so lonesome your singing

A A7 D

While the moonlight is shining so clear

(verse 2)

G D

But I know he's away in a far distant land

A D

A land that is over the sea

Go fly to him singing your sweet little song

A7 A7 D

And tell him to come back to me

(chorus)

D

Sweet fern, sweet fern

A A7 D

Oh tell me, is my darling still true

D

Sweet fern, sweet fern

A A7 D

I'll be just as happy as you

(verse 3)

Oh tell me sweet fern, is he thinking of me

And the promise he made long ago

He said he'd return from over the sea

Oh why do the years roll so slow

(verse 4)

I know he's away in a far distant land

A land that is over the sea

Go fly to him singing your sweet little song

And tell him to come back to me

(chorus)

D

Sweet fern, sweet fern

A A7 D

Oh tell me, is my darling still true

D

Sweet fern, sweet fern

A A7 D

I'll be just as happy as you

(verse 5)

Upon my finger he placed a small ring

On the day he was leaving his home

I promised I'd be his own little girl

And love him wherever he'd roam

(verse 6)

But I know he's away in a far distant land

A land that is over the sea

Go fly to him singing your sweet little song

And tell him to come back to me

(chorus)

D

Sweet fern, sweet fern

A A7 D

Oh tell me, is my darling still true

D

Sweet fern, sweet fern

A A7 D

I'll be just as happy as you