D 
    Springtime is coming, sweet lonesome bird, 
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    your echo in the woodland I hear. 

     Down in the meadow so lonesome your singing, 
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    while the moonlight is shining so clear. 

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    But I know he's away in a far distant land, 
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    a land that is over the sea. 

    Go fly to him singing your sweet little song. 
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    and tell him to come back to me. 

            D 
Sweet fern, sweet fern, sweet fern, sweet fern, 
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oh tell me, is my darling still true. 

Sweet fern, sweet fern, sweet fern, sweet fern, 
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I'll be just as happy as you. 

            D 
    Oh, tell me sweet fern, is he thinking of me, 
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    and the promise he made long ago. 

    He said he'd return from over the sea, 
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    oh why do the years roll so slow. 

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    I know he's away in a far distant land, 
        A                               D 
    a land that is over the sea. 

    Go fly to him singing your sweet little song. 
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    and tell him to come back to me. 

            D 
Sweet fern, sweet fern, sweet fern, sweet fern, 
      A                    A7              D 
oh tell me, is my darling still true. 

Sweet fern, sweet fern, sweet fern, sweet fern, 
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I'll be just as happy as you. 

         D 
    Upon my finger he placed a small ring 
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    on the day he was leaving his home . 

    I promised I'd be his own little girl, 
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    and love him wherever he'd roam. 

          G                           D 
    I know he's away in a far distant land, 
        A                               D 
    a land that is over the sea. 

    Go fly to him singing your sweet little song. 
            A               A7                 D 
    and tell him to come back to me. 

            D 
Sweet fern, sweet fern, sweet fern, sweet fern, 
      A                    A7              D 
oh tell me, is my darling still true. 

Sweet fern, sweet fern, sweet fern, sweet fern, 
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I'll be just as happy as you.