Taylor James - One Morning In May guitar tab

One Morning In May

(Public Domain, arr. James Taylor )

One morning, one morning, one morning in May [ A G D A ]

I spied a young couple, they were making their way [ A G D E ]

One was a maiden, so bright and so fair [ A F#m D A ]

and the other was a soldier and a brave volunteer [ A D E A ]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And if ever I return, it will be in the spring [ A F#m D 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." [ A D E A ]