Let No Man Steal Your Thyme chords by Traditional

Dm          C
Come all you girls, where'er you be,
   F    C    Dm
Who flourish in your prime
       C      Dm     C
Beware, take care if your garden is fair
  Dm   C     Dm  C
Let no man steal your thyme
  Dm   Am     Dm
Let no man steal your thyme


   Dm          C
For when your thyme is pulled and gone
    F    C    Dm
He'll care no more for you
      C        Dm      C
And every place where your thyme went to waste
   Dm     C    Dm  C
Will all spread over with rue
   Dm     Am    Dm
Will all spread over with rue

  Dm       C
I gave my love my summer?s yield
   F   C    Dm
and all my autumn?s store.
       C   Dm    C
From of my skill he took his fill
   Dm    C    Dm  C
and asked for more and more,
   Dm    Am    Dm
and asked for more and more.


  Dm      C
He fed to me of honeyed wine
   F   C    Dm
and all we sowed in May,
        C       Dm  C
but come new spring he went wandering.
   Dm   C    Dm  C
From me he then did stray,
   Dm   Am    Dm
from me he then did stray.


  Dm         C
The gardener's son was standing by,
    F     C   Dm
Sweet flowers he gave to me:
      C      Dm  C
The violet blue and the iris too,
    Dm    C     Dm  C
and the red, red rose made three,
    Dm    Am    Dm
and the red, red rose made three.


  Dm       C
But I refused that red rose bush
    F      C   Dm
and I planted the willow tree,
      C     Dm   C
so all the world may plainly see
  Dm    C    Dm C
how my love slighted me,
  Dm    Am   Dm
how my love slighted me.


 Dm     C
A woman is a branching tree
    F    C    Dm
and a man?s a clinging vine,
       C     Dm   C
and from her bounty so carelessly
    Dm    C    Dm  C
he?ll take what he can find,
    Dm    Am   Dm
he?ll take what he can find.