The Way of Love
Channel: TootlinGeoff
Date: 09/10/2012

An anonymous poem for which I have written a tune.

For Ukulele Underground 34th Season of the Ukulele: http://www.ukuleleunderground.com/forum/forum.php

The Challenge was to play a song which used the chord sequence I V vi IV. 

I found this song in a book of ballads published in the early years of the 20th century.

Words and Chords:

The [G] sea hath many [D] thousand sands
The [Em] sun hath motes as [C] many
The [G] sky is full of [D] stars and love
As [Em] full of woes as [C] any
Be[G]lieve me, that do [D] know the elf
And [Em] make no [C] trial by thy[G]self

It is in truth a pretty toy
For babes to play withal.
But O the honies of our youth
Are oft our age's gall!
Self proof in time will thee make vow
He was a prophet told thee so:

A prophet that, Cassandra-like,
Tells truth without belief,
For headstrong youth will run his grace
Although his goal be grief:
Love's martyr, when his heat is past,
Proves Care's confessor at the last.

(Repeat 1st verse)