Chords for Anais Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer - Willie's Lady (Child 6) // The Crypt Sessions

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King Willie he sailed over the raging [E] foamies wood a wife and he's brought her home he's
brought her home all against his mother's will his mother wrought her a wicked spell
and a wicked spell she's laid on her she'd be her child for long and many's the year
but the child she would never bear and in her bow she lies in pain King Willie by her
bedside even standing down his cheeks sobbing tears to run _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ King Willie back to his mother
he did run and he's gone there as a begging son says my true love has this fine gold will
see the likes of which [A] you have [E] never seen and every part of this horse's [F#] name is hanging [E] 50
silver bells and 10 hanging 50 bells and 10 this goodly [D] gift shall [D] be your own give back [F#] to my own
true love you turn again so she [E] might bear her baby son or the child she'll never lie [A] to be
no [E] from my curse will she ever be free but she will die and she will turn to clay and you will
wed with another maid and sighing says this weary man has back to his own true love he's gone again
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King Willie back to his mother he did run and he's gone there as a
begging son says my true love has this fine [A] golden girdle set with [E] jewels all about the middle and [Em] at
every part of this girdle son there's hanging [E] 50 silver bells and 10 hanging 50 bells and 10 this
goodly gift shall be [D] your own get back to my own true love you'll turn [A] again so she [E] might bear her
baby son or the child she'll never lie to be no from [E] my curse will she ever be free but she will
die and she will turn [A] to clay and you [E] will wed with another [Em] maid and sighing says this weary man has
back to his own true love he's [A] gone again I [E] wish my life was at an end and [D] up and spoke his noble
and [E] she is told King Willie a plan how she might bear her baby son _ [Em] _ _ _
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_ says you must go get you down
to the [A] marketplace and you must [E] buy a ball of wax and you must shape it as a babe [A] that is to nurse
and you [E] must make two eyes of glass and ask your mother to the [Bm] christening day and you [E] must stand
there close as [A] you can be so [E] you might hear what she does say King Willie he's gone down to the
[A] marketplace and he [E] is bought a ball of wax and he has shaped it as a [A] babe that is to nurse and he [E] is
made two eyes of glass he asked his mother to the christening day and he stood there close [A] as he
could be so he [E] might hear what she does say and how [D] she's fat and how she swore she's [E] by the
babe when old babe could be [A] before she's [E] by the babe when I could be before _ _ _
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_ _ says who was it whom
did the nine which not sprayed it in amongst this lady's locks and who was it who the leather shoe
untied from the left foot of his wedded bride and who was it split the silken thread the spider
stretched all beneath this lady's bed the spider stretched all beneath her bed and it was Willie
who undid [A] the nine which not sprayed [E] it in amongst this lady's locks and it was Willie who the leather
shoe untied from the left foot of his [Em] wedded bride and it was Willie split the silken thread the
[E] spider stretched all beneath this [A] lady's bed the [E] spider stretched all beneath her bed and [D] she has
born in the baby's hand [E] and great are the blessings that be them upon great are the blessings them upon _ _ _
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