Green Grow The Rushes
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Tom : C
C F C F C F C F C
[Verse 1]
Dm
There's naught but care on every hand
F
In every hour that passes O
C Dm
What signifies the life of man
Em F C
If it were not for the lassies O
[Chorus]
Dm
Green grow the rushes O
F
Green grow the rushes O
C Dm
The sweetest hours that e'er I spent
Em F G C
Are spent among the lassies O
[Verse 2]
Dm
The worldly race may riches chase
F
And riches still may fly them O
C Dm
And though at last they catch them fast
Em F C
Their hearts can ne'er enjoy them O
[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
Dm
Give me a cannie hour at e'en
C F
My arms around my dearie O
C Dm
The wisest man the world e'er saw
Em F C
He dearly loved the lassies O
[Chorus]
[Instrumental]
C Dm F C Dm Em F C
[Verse 4]
Dm
Old nature swears the lovely dears
C F
Her noblest work she classes O
Am Dm
Her apprentice hand she tried on man
Em F C
Then she made the lassies O
[Chorus]
[Outro]
Dm
Green grow the rushes
C F Am Dm Em F
Green grow the rushes
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