When Cockleshells Turn Silverbells-chrom

WHEN COCKLESHELLS TURN SILVERBELLS chromatic
17 C. English folksong
Key: F
3/4 time

 5    5   5  5-55-3  -3  -3  -3 -3-3*-3-2
When cock-le shells turn sil-ver- bells
-2  -2   -2 2-23-3-3*-1 2   1   -2
And mus-sels   grow  on ev-‘ry tree
  5    5     5 5-55-3   -3    -3   -3 -3-3*-3-2
When blooms the rose ‘mongst frost and  snows,
 -2   -2  -2 2-23-3 -3*  -1    2   1  -1
Then will my false love prove true to me

4 3  4   4  -3   4   3   4   4  -3
O wa-ly, wa-ly, but love is bon-nie
-2 -2 -2 2-23-3-3* -1 2  1  -2
A lit-tle  while when it is new
 5   5    5  5-55-3 -3  -3  -3   -3
But when it’s old   it grow-eth cold
-2   -2  -2 2-23-3-3* -1   2    1  -2
And fades a-  way    like morn-ing dew


O had I wist before I kissed
That love had been so ill to win
I’d locked my heart in case of gold
And pinned it with a silver pin

4 3  4   4  -3   4   3   4   4  -3
O wa-ly, wa-ly, but love is bon-nie
-2 -2 -2 2-23-3-3* -1 2  1  -2
A lit-tle  while when it is new
 5   5    5  5-55-3 -3  -3  -3   -3
But when it’s old   it grow-eth cold
-2   -2  -2 2-23-3-3* -1   2    1  -2
And fades a-  way    like morn-ing dew