Have You Seen But A White Lily Grow?

by 17th C. English folk song · posted by WaltP

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b or ': Half-step bend
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bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
(###): Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
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Tab

HAVE YOU SEEN BUT A WHITE LILY GROW?
W: Ben Johnson
17th C. English folk song
Key: D

-2*  -2*  -3  -1  2  -2*   2 -1 -1 2-2*3-3-44*-5
Have you seen but a white lil-y grow
-3  -4   -4   -2*   3*   -3    -3
Be-fore rude hands had touch’d it
 -2* -2* -4 -3 -4-3 3-2* 2  -2*  3*  -3
Have you mark’d but the fall of the snow
1* -1 2 -2*   2    -1    -1    -1 
Be-fore the earth hath smudged it
 -1  -1   -3  -1   -1  2  -2* -1
Have you felt the wool of bea-ver
-3   4    -4-3 -3 -3
Or swan’s down ev-er
2   2    -2*  2  -1   3  3  -3  -4  -4
Or have smelt of the bud of the bri-ar
-3  3   -2* 2  -1   -3
Or the nard in the fire
-2* 3    -3  -1  2  -2* 2  -1   2
Or have tast-ed the bag of the bee
2   2   -3    -2* -2* -4
Oh, so white  Oh, so soft
-3  -3   4*   -3  -5
Oh, so sweet, so sweet
-2*  2   -1 -1s
So sweet is she

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