The Dove

by War protest song, Judy Collins · posted by WaltP

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+: Blow note
−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
bb or '': Two half-step bend
bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
(###): Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *: Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

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Tab

THE DOVE 
W: Ewan McColl 
M: Traditional 
Judy Collins  
War protest song 
Key: D
Time: 3/4

 5   5   -6  -7 -6 5   5   6
The dove she is a pret-ty bird,  
-6  6 -3  -3  5   -3”
she sings as she flies 
-3”   -3”  3  -3”  -3   5
She brings us glad tid-ings  
 5  -5    5  -3” 4-3 -3”
and she tells us no lies 
 5    5   -6   -7 -6 5   6
She sucks the spring wa-ters  
-6  6   -4    5    -3”
to keep her voice clear 
-3”  -3”  -3”  3 -3”  -3    5
When her nest she is build-ing  
5-5  5  -3” 4-3 -3”
and sum-mer is near 

Come all you young fellows  
take warning by me 
Don't go for a soldier,  
don't join no army 
For the dove she will leave you,  
the raven will come 
And death will come marching  
at the beat of a drum 

Come all you pretty fair maids,  
come walk in the sun 
And don't let your young man  
ever carry a gun 
For the gun, it will scare her,  
and she'll fly away 
And then there'll be weeping  
by night and by day. 

The dove she is a pretty bird,  
she sings as she flies 
She brings us glad tidings  
and tells us no lies 
She drinks the spring waters  
to make her voice clear 
When her nest she is building  
and summer is near

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