Celtic Lyrics Corner > Artists & Groups > Session A9 > What Road? > Shady Grove
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Lyrics:
Peaches in the summer time
Apples in the fall
If I can't have the girl I love
I won't have none at all
Chorus (after each verse):
Shady grove, my little love
Oh shady grove, I know
Shady grove, my little love
I'm bound for shady grove
And if I had a banjo string
Made of gold and twine
Every tune I'd play on it
I'd wish that girl was mine
And if I had a needle and thread
Lord, the means to sew
I sew that girl to the side of myself
And I'd head off down the road
Some come here to fiddle and dance
Some come here to tarry
Some come here to fiddle and dance
And I come here to marry
Every night 'ere I get home
My wife, I try to please her
But the harder I try, the worse she gets
I'm damned if I don't leave her