Dammit...wrong button....and just for the sake of completeness....here they are.

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  1. Springtime is coming, sweet lonesome bird,
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      your echo in the woodland I hear.
  
       Down in the meadow so lonesome your singing,
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      while the moonlight is shining so clear.
  
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      But I know he's away in a far distant land,
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      a land that is over the sea.
  
      Go fly to him singing your sweet little song.
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      and tell him to come back to me.
  
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  Sweet fern, sweet fern, sweet fern, sweet fern,
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  oh tell me, is my darling still true.
  
  Sweet fern, sweet fern, sweet fern, sweet fern,
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  I'll be just as happy as you.
  
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  2. Oh, tell me sweet fern, is he thinking of me,
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      and the promise he made long ago.
  
      He said he'd return from over the sea,
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      oh why do the years roll so slow.
  
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      I know he's away in a far distant land,
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      a land that is over the sea.
  
  
      Go fly to him singing your sweet little song.
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      and tell him to come back to me.
  
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  Sweet fern, sweet fern, sweet fern, sweet fern,
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  oh tell me, is my darling still true.
  
  Sweet fern, sweet fern, sweet fern, sweet fern,
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  I'll be just as happy as you.
  
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  3. Upon my finger he placed a small ring
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      on the day he was leaving his home .
  
      I promised I'd be his own little girl,
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      and love him wherever he'd roam.
  
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      I know he's away in a far distant land,
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      a land that is over the sea.
  
      Go fly to him singing your sweet little song.
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      and tell him to come back to me.
  
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  (capo 3 rd)                 (The Carter Family)