{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2310967,"song":"Underneath Her Apron","artist":"Steeleye Span","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11482426-underneath-her-apron-chords-by-steeleye-span/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2310967?type=chord","rating":0.12251,"votes":0,"content":"[Intro]\r\n[ch]C[/ch]   [ch]G[/ch]   [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nA pretty young girl all in the month of May[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nA gathering rushes just at the break of day[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Am[/ch]                            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut before she's come home, she has born a little son[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd she's rolled him all underneath her apron[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                                    [ch]F[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAll in the first part of the night, when all were fast asleep[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nThis pretty little baby, oh, it began to weep[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]                               [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"Oh, what's that little babe that's a-crying out so shrill[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIn the bedroom among the pretty maidens?\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]F[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"Oh father, dear father, it's nothing then,\" said she[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"It's just a little bird that my sister gave to me[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Am[/ch]                           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd I'll build for it a nest and I'll warm it on my breast[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSo that it won't wake you early in the May morning\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                                   [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAll in the last part of the night, when they were fast asleep[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nThis pretty little baby, again began to weep[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]                             [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"Oh, what's that little babe that's crying out so clear[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIn the bedroom among the pretty maidens?\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]F[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"Oh father, dear father, it's nothing then\" said she[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"It's just a little baby that someone gave to me[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Am[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nLet it lie, let it sleep this night along o' me[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd I'll tell to you its daddy in the May morning\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]                        [ch]F[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"Oh, was it by a black man or was it by a brown[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nOr was it by a ploughing-boy, a-ploughing up and down[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThat gave you the stranger you wear with your new gown[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThat you've rolled up underneath your apron?'[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                            [ch]F[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"It wasn't by a black man and it wasn't by a brown[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut it was by a sailor lad, that ploughs the watery main[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Am[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd was him gave me the stranger I wear with my new gown[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThat I've rolled up underneath me apron\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]                             [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"Oh, was it in the kitchen got, or was it in the hall?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nOr was it in the cowshed or up against the wall?[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Am[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI wish I had a firebrand to burn the building down[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhere you met with him on a May morning\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                                  [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"It wasn't in the kitchen-room got, it wasn't in the hall[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt wasn't in the cowshed, nor up again the wall[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Am[/ch]                                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt was down by yonder spring, where them pretty birds do sing[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThat I met with him on a May morning\"[/tab]","plain_text":"[Intro]\nC   G   C G\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]","chords":["C","G","F","A","Am"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}