Chords for Heralds, Harpers & Havoc 03 Threes (Take 2)
Tempo:
60.6 bpm
Chords used:
Em
G
B
A
D
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[Em] Deep [Em] into the stony hills, miles from town or [D] fold,
[G] A troop of guards comes riding with a lady [B] and her gold.
[Em] She rides bemused among [G] them, shrouded [Em] in her cloak of fur,
Companioned by [A] a maiden and [G] a toothless [Em] aged her.
[G] Three things see no end, a flower [B] blighted, ere it [Em] blooms,
A message that miscarries and a journey that is doomed.
One among the guardsmen has a [Em] shifting restless [G] sigh,
[Em] And as they ride he scans the hills [G] that rise against [B] the sky.
[Em] He wears both sword and [G] jewels worth more than [Em] he could afford,
And [Em] hidden in [A] his baggage is [Em] a heavy secret hoard.
[G] Of three [Em] things be [G] wary of, a feather [B] on a [Em] cat,
The shepherd eating mutton, and the guardsman that is fat.
Little does the lady care what all the guardsmen [G] know,
But [Em] bandits ambush caravans [G] that on these [B] trade roads [G] go.
[Em] In spite of tricks and [G] clever traps and [Em] all that men can do,
[Bm] The brigands seem [Em] to always sense which dreams are false or true.
[G] Three [Em] things are most [G] perilous, the [B] shape that walks [Em] behind,
The ice that will not hold you and the spy you cannot find.
From ambush bandits screaming charge the back train and its prize,
And all but four within the [G] train are taken [B] by surprise.
[Em] And all but four are [G] cut down as the [Em] woodsman fells a log,
The guardsman [A] and the lady [Em] and the maiden and the dog.
Three things hold a [G] secret lady [B] writing in a [Em] dream,
The dog that sounds no warning and the maid who does not scream.
Then [Em] off the lady pulls her cloak in armor she is glad,
His sword is out and ready [G] and her eyes [B] are fierce and glad.
[Em] The maiden makes a gesture and the dogs occur no more,
[D] A wolf, sword, [Em] maid and sorceress now face the bandit floor.
[G] Three things never [Em] anger or [G] you will not [B] live for long,
[Em] A wolf with cuffs, a man with power and a woman's sense of wrong.
The lady and her sister by a single trader [G] loan
Were [Em] hired out to try [G] to lay a [B] trap all of their [Em] own.
And no one knew their plan [G] except the two [Em] who rode that day,
For what you do not [A] know you cannot [Em] ever give away.
[G] Three things if it's better far than only [B] two should [Em] know,
Where treasure hides, who shares your bed and how to catch your foe.
The bandits growl a challenge as the lady [Em] only [G] grins,
[Em] The sorceress falls mockingly [B] and then the fight [Em] begins.
When it ends there's only [D] four left standing [Em] from the horde,
The witch, the wolf, the trader and the woman with a sword.
[Em] Three things never trusted, [G] the maiden [B] sworn as pure,
[Em] The vows a king has given and the ambush that is sure.
They strip the trader naked and then whip him on his way,
[G] Into [Em] the barren [G] hillsides like the [B] folk he used to slay.
[Em]
And what of all the maidens [G] that this bandit [Em] raped and slew?
So as revenge the [A] sorceress makes [Em] him a woman too.
Three things trust above all [G] else a horse on [B] which you ride,
[Em] The beast that guard your sleeping and your shield [Em] made at your side.
[G] A troop of guards comes riding with a lady [B] and her gold.
[Em] She rides bemused among [G] them, shrouded [Em] in her cloak of fur,
Companioned by [A] a maiden and [G] a toothless [Em] aged her.
[G] Three things see no end, a flower [B] blighted, ere it [Em] blooms,
A message that miscarries and a journey that is doomed.
One among the guardsmen has a [Em] shifting restless [G] sigh,
[Em] And as they ride he scans the hills [G] that rise against [B] the sky.
[Em] He wears both sword and [G] jewels worth more than [Em] he could afford,
And [Em] hidden in [A] his baggage is [Em] a heavy secret hoard.
[G] Of three [Em] things be [G] wary of, a feather [B] on a [Em] cat,
The shepherd eating mutton, and the guardsman that is fat.
Little does the lady care what all the guardsmen [G] know,
But [Em] bandits ambush caravans [G] that on these [B] trade roads [G] go.
[Em] In spite of tricks and [G] clever traps and [Em] all that men can do,
[Bm] The brigands seem [Em] to always sense which dreams are false or true.
[G] Three [Em] things are most [G] perilous, the [B] shape that walks [Em] behind,
The ice that will not hold you and the spy you cannot find.
From ambush bandits screaming charge the back train and its prize,
And all but four within the [G] train are taken [B] by surprise.
[Em] And all but four are [G] cut down as the [Em] woodsman fells a log,
The guardsman [A] and the lady [Em] and the maiden and the dog.
Three things hold a [G] secret lady [B] writing in a [Em] dream,
The dog that sounds no warning and the maid who does not scream.
Then [Em] off the lady pulls her cloak in armor she is glad,
His sword is out and ready [G] and her eyes [B] are fierce and glad.
[Em] The maiden makes a gesture and the dogs occur no more,
[D] A wolf, sword, [Em] maid and sorceress now face the bandit floor.
[G] Three things never [Em] anger or [G] you will not [B] live for long,
[Em] A wolf with cuffs, a man with power and a woman's sense of wrong.
The lady and her sister by a single trader [G] loan
Were [Em] hired out to try [G] to lay a [B] trap all of their [Em] own.
And no one knew their plan [G] except the two [Em] who rode that day,
For what you do not [A] know you cannot [Em] ever give away.
[G] Three things if it's better far than only [B] two should [Em] know,
Where treasure hides, who shares your bed and how to catch your foe.
The bandits growl a challenge as the lady [Em] only [G] grins,
[Em] The sorceress falls mockingly [B] and then the fight [Em] begins.
When it ends there's only [D] four left standing [Em] from the horde,
The witch, the wolf, the trader and the woman with a sword.
[Em] Three things never trusted, [G] the maiden [B] sworn as pure,
[Em] The vows a king has given and the ambush that is sure.
They strip the trader naked and then whip him on his way,
[G] Into [Em] the barren [G] hillsides like the [B] folk he used to slay.
[Em]
And what of all the maidens [G] that this bandit [Em] raped and slew?
So as revenge the [A] sorceress makes [Em] him a woman too.
Three things trust above all [G] else a horse on [B] which you ride,
[Em] The beast that guard your sleeping and your shield [Em] made at your side.
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[Em] _ _ _ _ Deep [Em] into the stony hills, miles from town or [D] fold,
[G] A troop of guards comes riding with a lady [B] and her gold.
[Em] She rides bemused among [G] them, shrouded [Em] in her cloak of fur,
Companioned by [A] a maiden and [G] a toothless [Em] aged her.
[G] Three things see no end, a flower [B] blighted, ere it [Em] blooms,
A message that miscarries and a journey that is doomed.
_ One among the guardsmen has a [Em] shifting restless [G] sigh,
[Em] And as they ride he scans the hills [G] that rise against [B] the sky.
[Em] He wears both sword and [G] jewels worth more than [Em] he could afford,
And [Em] hidden in [A] his baggage is [Em] a heavy secret hoard.
[G] Of three [Em] things be [G] wary of, a feather [B] on a [Em] cat,
The shepherd eating mutton, and the guardsman that is fat.
_ _ Little does the lady care what all the guardsmen [G] know,
But [Em] bandits ambush caravans [G] that on these [B] trade roads [G] go.
[Em] In spite of tricks and [G] clever traps and [Em] all that men can do,
[Bm] The brigands seem [Em] to always sense which dreams are false or true.
[G] Three [Em] things are most [G] perilous, the [B] shape that walks [Em] behind,
The ice that will not hold you and the spy you cannot find.
From ambush bandits screaming charge the back train and its prize,
And all but four within the [G] train are taken [B] by surprise.
[Em] And all but four are [G] cut down as the [Em] woodsman fells a log,
The guardsman [A] and the lady [Em] and the maiden and the dog.
Three things hold a [G] secret lady [B] writing in a [Em] dream,
The dog that sounds no warning and the maid who does not scream.
_ Then [Em] off the lady pulls her cloak in armor she is glad,
His sword is out and ready [G] and her eyes [B] are fierce and glad.
[Em] The maiden makes a gesture and the dogs occur no more,
[D] A wolf, sword, [Em] maid and sorceress now face the bandit floor.
[G] Three things never [Em] anger or [G] you will not [B] live for long,
[Em] A wolf with cuffs, a man with power and a woman's sense of wrong.
_ _ The lady and her sister by a single trader [G] loan
Were [Em] hired out to try [G] to lay a [B] trap all of their [Em] own.
And no one knew their plan [G] except the two [Em] who rode that day,
For what you do not [A] know you cannot [Em] ever give away.
[G] Three things if it's better far than only [B] two should [Em] know,
Where treasure hides, who shares your bed and how to catch your foe.
_ The bandits growl a challenge as the lady [Em] only [G] grins,
[Em] The sorceress falls mockingly [B] and then the fight [Em] begins.
When it ends there's only [D] four left standing [Em] from the horde,
The witch, the wolf, the trader and the woman with a sword.
[Em] Three things never trusted, [G] the maiden [B] sworn as pure,
[Em] The vows a king has given and the ambush that is sure.
_ They strip the trader naked and then whip him on his way,
[G] Into [Em] the barren [G] hillsides like the [B] folk he used to slay.
[Em]
And what of all the maidens [G] that this bandit [Em] raped and slew?
So as revenge the [A] sorceress makes [Em] him a woman too.
Three things trust above all [G] else a horse on [B] which you ride,
[Em] The beast that guard your sleeping and your shield [Em] made at your side. _ _ _ _ _
[G] A troop of guards comes riding with a lady [B] and her gold.
[Em] She rides bemused among [G] them, shrouded [Em] in her cloak of fur,
Companioned by [A] a maiden and [G] a toothless [Em] aged her.
[G] Three things see no end, a flower [B] blighted, ere it [Em] blooms,
A message that miscarries and a journey that is doomed.
_ One among the guardsmen has a [Em] shifting restless [G] sigh,
[Em] And as they ride he scans the hills [G] that rise against [B] the sky.
[Em] He wears both sword and [G] jewels worth more than [Em] he could afford,
And [Em] hidden in [A] his baggage is [Em] a heavy secret hoard.
[G] Of three [Em] things be [G] wary of, a feather [B] on a [Em] cat,
The shepherd eating mutton, and the guardsman that is fat.
_ _ Little does the lady care what all the guardsmen [G] know,
But [Em] bandits ambush caravans [G] that on these [B] trade roads [G] go.
[Em] In spite of tricks and [G] clever traps and [Em] all that men can do,
[Bm] The brigands seem [Em] to always sense which dreams are false or true.
[G] Three [Em] things are most [G] perilous, the [B] shape that walks [Em] behind,
The ice that will not hold you and the spy you cannot find.
From ambush bandits screaming charge the back train and its prize,
And all but four within the [G] train are taken [B] by surprise.
[Em] And all but four are [G] cut down as the [Em] woodsman fells a log,
The guardsman [A] and the lady [Em] and the maiden and the dog.
Three things hold a [G] secret lady [B] writing in a [Em] dream,
The dog that sounds no warning and the maid who does not scream.
_ Then [Em] off the lady pulls her cloak in armor she is glad,
His sword is out and ready [G] and her eyes [B] are fierce and glad.
[Em] The maiden makes a gesture and the dogs occur no more,
[D] A wolf, sword, [Em] maid and sorceress now face the bandit floor.
[G] Three things never [Em] anger or [G] you will not [B] live for long,
[Em] A wolf with cuffs, a man with power and a woman's sense of wrong.
_ _ The lady and her sister by a single trader [G] loan
Were [Em] hired out to try [G] to lay a [B] trap all of their [Em] own.
And no one knew their plan [G] except the two [Em] who rode that day,
For what you do not [A] know you cannot [Em] ever give away.
[G] Three things if it's better far than only [B] two should [Em] know,
Where treasure hides, who shares your bed and how to catch your foe.
_ The bandits growl a challenge as the lady [Em] only [G] grins,
[Em] The sorceress falls mockingly [B] and then the fight [Em] begins.
When it ends there's only [D] four left standing [Em] from the horde,
The witch, the wolf, the trader and the woman with a sword.
[Em] Three things never trusted, [G] the maiden [B] sworn as pure,
[Em] The vows a king has given and the ambush that is sure.
_ They strip the trader naked and then whip him on his way,
[G] Into [Em] the barren [G] hillsides like the [B] folk he used to slay.
[Em]
And what of all the maidens [G] that this bandit [Em] raped and slew?
So as revenge the [A] sorceress makes [Em] him a woman too.
Three things trust above all [G] else a horse on [B] which you ride,
[Em] The beast that guard your sleeping and your shield [Em] made at your side. _ _ _ _ _