Shady Grove

X: 1
M: C
L: 1/8
K: Gm
| "Gm" GGG2 "F" AGF2 | "Gm" GGAc d4 | "Bb" ffd2 "F" cAF2 | "Gm" GGA/G/F G4 |

Gm             F
Peaches in the summer time
Gm            Gm
Apples in the fall—
   Bb          F
If I don’t get the one I want
Gm
I don’t want none at all

Chorus:
Shady Grove, my true love
Shady Grove my darlin!
Shady Grove, my true love
I’m going back to Harlan

Every night when I get home
My wife, I try to please her
The more I try, the worse she gets
Damned if I don’t leave her

[Chorus]

First time I saw Shady Grove
She was standing in the door
Shoes and stockings in her hand
And her little bare feet on the floor.

[Chorus]

When I was a little boy
I wanted a barlow knife—
Now I want little Shady Grove
To say she’ll be my wife

[Chorus]

Wish I had a needle and a thread
Fine as I could sew:
I’d sew that pretty girl to my side
And down the road we’d go.

[Chorus]

Wish I had a banjo string
Made of golden twine:
Every tune I played on it
I’d wish that gal were mine.

[Chorus]