Two Sisters Chords by Emily Portman

[Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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Two little _ sisters living in a bower,
_ _ _ Oleander _ yowling.
The youngest was the fairest flower,
Down by the waters [Bb]
rolling.
_ [Cm] A noble [Gm] knight came [Cm] riding by,
_ _ Oleander _ _ yowling.
Two little [Ebm] sisters [Cm] caught his eye,
Down by the waters [Gm] rolling.
[Cm] And he courted the [Gm] eldest with diamonds [Cm] and rings, _ _ _
Oleander yowling.
The other he loved above all [Gm] things,
Down by the waters rolling.
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_ [G] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [Cm] _
Sister, sister, come down to the broom,
_ _ Oleander _ _ yowling.
We'll hear the birds change their tune,
Down by the waters rolling. _
[Fm] So she [Eb] took her sister by the [Cm] hand,
_ _ _ Oleander yowling.
_ And led her down to the river strand,
Down by the waters rolling.
_ And as they stood at the river's brim, _ _ _
Oleander _ yowling.
The eldest _ pushed her sister [F] in.
_ [D] _
_ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Sister, sister, reach me your hand,
_ _ _ _ [Fm] Oleander yowling.
And [Cm] you'll be the heir to my riches and land,
Down by the waters [Ab] rolling. _
[Cm] Oh, sister, sister, that'll never be,
_ _ Oleander _ yowling.
Till salt and [F] oatmeal grow of a tree,
Down by the [Cm] waters rolling.
[Fm] Oh, sister, [Cm] sister, lend me but your glove, _ _ _ _
Oleander yowling.
And you shall have [F] my own [Cm] true love,
Down by the waters rolling.
_ [F] It's your own [Cm] true love I'll have and more, _ _
_ Oleander _ yowling.
But you shall never _ [Fm] come to shore,
_ _ For your cherry cheeks and your [Cm] long yellow hair, _ _ _
Oleander _ yowling.
Made me a maid _ _ _ _ forevermore.
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_ _ _ _ Sometime she sank, [C] sometime she swam,
[F] _ _
[Cm] Oleander _ yowling. _ _
Till she came to [Fm] a miller's dam,
[Cm]
By the waters [Bb] rolling.
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_ _ [Fm] _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Eb] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _
_ _ _ The miller and his daughter stood at the door,
_ _ Oleander _ _ yowling.
And watched her body [Fm] floating to shore,
[Cm] _ Down in the waters _ rolling.
Oh, father, father, draw your dam, _
_ _ [Fm] Oleander _ [Cm] yowling.
For it's either a mermaid or a swan,
Down in the waters rolling. _
The miller, he dragged her out into the shore,
_ _ Oleander _ _ yowling.
And he stripped her of all that she wore,
_ Down in the waters rolling.
He laid her body [F] on the bank [Cm] to dry, _ _
Oleander _ yowling.
_ A minstrel he came riding by, _
Down by the waters rolling.
And he made a harp of her breastbone,
_ _ _ [C] Oleander _ yowling.
[Fm] Whose sound could melt a heart of stone. _ _ _ _
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[Cm] _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _
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_ [Cm] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Ab] _
_ _ _ He took [C] three locks from her [Fm] long yellow [Ab] hair, _ _ _
[Fm] Oleander yowling.
[Cm] _ [C] With them strung a harp so rare,
Down by the waters rolling.
_ [Cm] And he took the harp to the king's high hall,
[C] _
_ Oleander _ _ yowling. _
[Eb] There was [F] a court assembled [Ebm] [D] all,
[Cm] Down by the waters rolling.
And he laid the [Ab] harp there upon [Cm] a stone,
_ _ Oleander _ yowling.
[Eb] The [F] harp began [Cm] to play _ alone.
[Gm] _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [Ab] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
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[F] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [D] But the [C] only tune that the harp would play,
[Ab] Was _ _ Oleander _ yowling.
[Eb] The [F] only tune [Gm] that the harp would [D] play,
[C] Down by the waters rolling. _
It sang yonder sits [Ab] my [Cm] love the king,
_ _ Oleander _ yowling.
_ How [Ab] he'll [Cm] weep at my _ [D] burying,
[Cm] By the waters rolling.
_ And yonder sits [Dm] my sister the queen,
[Cm] _ _ [Eb] _
Oleander [Cm] _ _ [Eb] yowling.
_ She drowned me [Am] in the cold, cold _ stream, _ _ _
Down in the _ waters rolling. _
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