Chords for Cheri Knight - Dar Glasgow

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_ _ _ I lie in the shade of the sourwood tree Hidden from all _ _ passersby
Read not the words on this marble white stone Tell of this sad life of mine
I ran in the starlight, the starlight so full And deepest hung by [Ab]
my side
I was the maid by whom others [Db] were measured For I always filled over the line
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_ Good morning fine ladies, good morning [Db] _ again Let me warm my cold hands
_ Gather around, let your milk down Fill my silver bucket [Ab] again _ _ _
For all life's riches, _ leading and gone I [Abm] had a silent [Db] yearning [Ab] so strong
The wail of a nightjar is a sad reverie But there beating hearts are music to me _ _ _ _ _
_ He asked me to marry and he knelt in the straw For what I could not marry
_ I was wedded to those in the valley below Who gave their milk only to me
_ _ With the days of the summer my life _ [Db] _
[Ab] abdicated Many took pity on me _
But the nectar they gave till the end of my time Was sweet as a cup of bay wine
_ _ For all life's riches, leading and gone I [Abm] had a [Ab] silent yearning so strong
My silver bucket never did shine _ Carried a nectar as sweet as may wine
_ As sweet as may _ _
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The nectar they gave till the end of my time Was sweet as a cup of may wine
_ _ Sweet as a cup of may wine
_ _ Sweet as a cup [Db] of may wine
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