The Dove

THE DOVE
W: Ewan McColl
M: Traditional
Judy Collins 
War protest song
Key: Bb

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The dove she is a pret-ty bird, 
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she sings as she flies
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She brings us glad tid-ings 
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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

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