Shady Grove

When I was a girl, maybe a tween or young teenager, my Grandpa Toad taught me this song on the piano. 
It doesn't really sound like this song when I hear it played with guitar and all those stringed instruments, but this is the song. 
I loved it and it's the only thing I can play on the piano. 
Oh how I wish I'd learned to play the piano somewhere along the way. 
We barely had a music class when I was in school, if there was anybody to teach piano, I didn't know about it and I guess my mom wasn't really interested in anything like that, but I have always loved plunking on the piano. 
Seems I would have picked it up somewhere through the years but I really don't think I have the apptitude for it.

Anyway, here is the song Grandpa Toad taught me to plunk out on the piano, still love it!

Shady Grove

chorus: 
Shady Grove, my true love, 
Shady Grove I sing, 
Shady Grove, my true love, 
I'm bound for Shady Grove...

Peaches in the summertime,
Apples in the fall, 
If I can't have the girl I love,
I won't have none at all...

chorus:
Shady Grove, my true love,
Shady Grove I sing,
Shady Grove, my true love,
I'm bound for Shady Grove...

Once I was a little boy,
Playin' in the sand,
Now I am a great big boy,
An' I think myself a man,

chorus:
Shady Grove, my true love, 
Shady Grove I sing,
Shady Grove, my true love,
I'm bound for Shady Grove...

When I was a little boy,
I wanted a whittlin' knife, 
Now I am a great big boy,
An' I want a little wife, 

chorus:
Shady Grove, my true love, 
Shady Grove I sing,
Shady Grove, my true love,
I'm bound for Shady Grove...

Wish I had a banjo string,
Made of golden twine, 
And every time I'd pick on it, 
Is' I wish that girl was mine...

chorus:
Shady Grove, my true love,
Shady Grove I sing, 
Shady Grove, my true love, 
I'm bound for Shady Grove...


LOVE IT!