PRETTY LITTLE MISS IN THE GARDEN (Public Domain)
>From "Clinch Mountain Country" (Rebel-5001)
Released May 1998
Ralph Stanley with ALISON KRAUSS
Disk 2/Track 4

Key of C


INTRO
G C


VERSE 1
              C                G
Pretty little miss out in the garden
                               C
Strange young man came riding by
             C           G
Down at the gate he did address her
                     G                    C
Saying pretty little miss won't you marry me


VERSE 2
Oh no my love is on the ocean
Seven years out on the sea
And if he sails seven years longer
No man on earth can marry me


VERSE 3
Perhaps your loved one he is drownded
Perhaps he's in some battle land
Perhaps he stole some girl and married
You'll never see you love again


VERSE 4
If he is drownded I hope he's happy
Or if he's in some battle land
Or if he stole some girl and married
I'll love the girl that married him


VERSE 5
He pulled his hands out of of his pocket
His fingers being keen and small
This is a ring he placed upon her
Down by his feet she did fall


VERSE 6
He picked her up in arms so tender

Kisses he gave her one, two, three
This is your little single soldier
Returning home to marry thee

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