Song Name: | pretty polly perkins (tremolo) | By: | Harry Clifton |
Posted By: | yukon | Difficulty: | Beginner |
Key: | A | Genre: | Irish |
Harp Type: | Tremolo | ||
Created: | 2014-04-29 03:53:19 | Modified: | 2014-04-29 04:01:31 |
Song: | This is tabbed for a 24 hole Echo Celeste tremolo
4 4 -2 3 4 5 -5 5 3 I am a broken hearted milkman 4 -2 3 -1 2 In grief I�m arrayed 5 -5 4 6 6 -5 4 Through keeping of the company -4 -4 5 -4 -3 4 Of a young servant maid 3-2 34 5 -5 5 5 4 Who lived on board and wages 4 -3 -5 -5 4 The house to keep clean 5 -5 6-5 -66 -55 -5 -3 In a gen-tle-man�s family 5 4 -3 -4 5 Near Pattington Green Chorus: 4 4 -2 3 3 5 5 -5 5 5 4 She was as beautiful as a butterfly 4 -4 -5 -5 4 And proud as a queen 5-5 6 -5 -6 6 -5 5 -5 -3 Was pretty lit-tle Pol-ly Perkins 5 4 -3 -4 5 Of Pattington Green Verse 2: She�d an ankle like an antelope And a step like a deer A voice like a black bird So mellow and clear Her hair hung in ringlets So beautiful and long I thought that she loved me But I found I was wrong (Chorus) Verse 3: When I�d rattle in the morning And cry milk below At the sound of my milk cans Her face she did show With a smile on her countenance And a laugh in her eye If I�d thought that she loved me I�d have laid down to die (Chorus) Verse 4: When I asked her to marry me She said �Oh what stuff� And told me to drop it For she�d had quite enough Of my nonsense at the time I�d been very kind But marry a milkman She didn�t feel inclined (Chorus) Verse 5: The man that has me must Have silver and gold A chariot to ride in And be handsome and bold His hair must be curly As any watch spring And whiskers as big as A brush for clothing (Chorus) Verse 6: The words that she uttered went Straight through my heart I sobbed and I sighed And I straight did depart With a tear on my eyelid As big as a bean I bid farewell to Polly And to Paddington Green (Chorus) Verse 7: In six months she married This hard hearted girl But it was not a Wi-count, And it was not a Nearl It was not a Boronite, But a shade or two wuss It was a bow legged conductor Of a tuppenny bus. (Chorus) |