G                                             C
The lambs on the green hills, they sport and they play
    G                                     D
And many strawberries grow round the salt sea
    G                                  C
How sad is my heart when my own love's away
    G          D7              C      G
How many's the ship sails the ocean –

[Verse 2]
    G                                           C
The bride and bride's party, to church they did go
    G                                           D
The bride she rode foremost, she bears the best show
      G                                        C
And I followed after with my heart filled with woe
       G           D7      C           G
For to see my love wed to another -

[Verse 3]
    G                                      C
The next time I saw her, was in the Church stand
     G                                      D
Gold ring on her finger and her love by her hand
     G                               C
Says I my wee lassie, I will be your man
   G             D7      C          G
Although you are wed to another –


[Verse 4]
    G                                   C
The last time I saw her, was on the way home
   G                                       D
 I rode on before her not knowing where to roam
     G                              C
Says I my wee lassie, I will be the one
  G              D7      C         G
Although you are wed to another –

[Verse 5]
      G                                      C
Stop, stop says the groomsman, til I speak a word
          G                                   D
Would you chance your life on the point of my sword
    G                                           C
For courting so slowly, you have lost this fair maid
      G            D7           C            G
So be gone for you ne'er will enjoy her –

[Verse 6]
   G                                    C
So dig now my grave, both long wide and deep
    G                                D
And sprinkle it over with flowers so sweet
    G                                     C
And lay me down in it for to take my last sleep
    G          D7             C           G
For that's the sure way to forget her. –