This love ballad was written way back in the 1780's!
The Richmond of this song is the market town in North Yorkshire not Surrey!
Verse 1
G D G D
On Richmond Hill there lives a lass more bright than a May-day morn
G D G D G
Whose charms all others maids' surpass a rose without a thorn
D G D
This lass so neat with smiles so sweet has won my right good will
D
I'd crowns resign to call thee mine
D G D G
Sweet lass of Richmond Hill
Chorus
G
Sweet lass of Richmond Hill
D
Sweet lass of Richmond Hill
G C G
I'd crowns resign to call thee mine
C D G
Sweet lass of Richmond Hill
Verse 2
G D G D
Ye zephyrs gay that fan the air and wonton through the grove
G D G D G
Oh whisper to my charming fair I die for her I love
D G D
This lass so neat with smiles so sweet has won my right good will
D
I'd crowns resign to call thee mine
D G D G
Sweet lass of Richmond Hill
Chorus
G
Sweet lass of Richmond Hill
D
Sweet lass of Richmond Hill
G C G
I'd crowns resign to call thee mine
C D G
Sweet lass of Richmond Hill
Verse 3
G D G D
How happy will the shepherd be who calls this nymph his own
G D G D G
Oh may her choice be fix'd on me mine's fixed on her alone
D G D
This lass so neat with smiles so sweet has won my right good will
D
I'd crowns resign to call thee mine
D G D G
Sweet lass of Richmond Hill
Chorus
G
Sweet lass of Richmond Hill
D
Sweet lass of Richmond Hill
G C G
I'd crowns resign to call thee mine
C D G
Sweet lass of Richmond Hill
Repeat chorus
G
Sweet lass of Richmond Hill
D
Sweet lass of Richmond Hill
G C G
I'd crowns resign to call thee mine
C D G
Sweet lass of Richmond Hill