| G | C | D | |
| 1. | Early one morning, just | as the sun was | rising |
| G | C | G | |
| I | heard a maiden singing, from the | valley be | low: |
| Chorus: |
| D | C | G | D | C | G | |
| " | Oh, don't | deceive | me, | Oh nev | er leave | me, |
| G | C | D | G | |
| How could you | use, a | poor maiden | so?" |
| 2. "Oh gay is the garland, and fresh are the roses, |
| I've culled from the garden, to bind upon thy brow." |
| 3. "Remember the vows, that you made to your Mary |
| Remember the bow'r, where you promised to be true." |
| 4. Thus sang the poor maid, her sorrows bewailing, |
| Thus, sang the poor maid, in the valley below: |
| Repeat last line of chorus |