The Little Sparrow Chords

KeyG Capo1st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays502

The Little Sparrow by Country Gentlemen is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of G with a capo on the 1st fret. It uses the chords G, D and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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(CHORUS) 
             (G) 
Come all ye fair and tender ladies 
                                  (D) 
take warning how, you court young men. 
                (Am)              (G) 
They're like a star, on a summer morning 
            (Am)                     (D) 
they first appear, and then they're gone. 
 
 
They'll tell to you, some loving story 
And they make you think, that they love you well. 
Then away they'll go, and court some other 
and leave you there, in grief to dwell. 
 
I wish I was, a little sparrow 
and had wings to fly so high 
I'd fly away, to my false true lover 
and when she'd ask, I would deny. 
 
Oh love is handsome, love is charming 
love is pretty, while its new. 
But love grows old, as love grows older 
and fades away, like morning dew. 
 
 

    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante