Chords for Lady Margaret and Sweet William Shirley Collins (child 74)
Tempo:
111.3 bpm
Chords used:
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Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret

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Sweet William arose one May morning, and dressed himself in blue.
We want you to tell us something about the long love between Lady Margaret [B] and you.
I know nothing [E] of Lady Margaret's [B] love, I'm sure she don't love me.
tomorrow morning at eight o'clock, Lady Margaret my bride [B] shall see.
Lady Margaret sat [E] in her own hall door, a-combing down her hair.
When she saw Sweet William come a-riding by, bringing [A] his new [B] bride home,
first threw [E] down her ivory comb, [B] tied up her long yellow hair,
Sweet William arose one May morning, and dressed himself in blue.
We want you to tell us something about the long love between Lady Margaret [B] and you.
I know nothing [E] of Lady Margaret's [B] love, I'm sure she don't love me.
tomorrow morning at eight o'clock, Lady Margaret my bride [B] shall see.
Lady Margaret sat [E] in her own hall door, a-combing down her hair.
When she saw Sweet William come a-riding by, bringing [A] his new [B] bride home,
first threw [E] down her ivory comb, [B] tied up her long yellow hair,
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_ _ Sweet William arose one May morning, and dressed himself in blue.
_ We want you to tell us something about the long love between Lady Margaret [B] and you.
_ I know nothing [E] of Lady _ Margaret's [B] love, I'm sure she don't love me.
[E] But tomorrow morning at eight o'clock, Lady Margaret my bride [B] shall see. _ _
_ _ Lady Margaret sat [E] in her own hall door, a-combing down her hair.
When she saw Sweet William come a-riding by, bringing [A] his new [B] bride home,
she first threw [E] down her ivory comb, [B] tied up her long yellow _ hair,
[E] and out of [A] the door went [E] this Lady Gay, _ _ to never return [B] any more. _ _ _
_ Now late that night [E] when William was in bed, and most all men was _ asleep,
_ Lady Margaret's ghost came to Sweet William's side, and stood at [A] his own [B] bed-feet,
saying, How do you like [E] your snow-white pillow?
[B] How do you like your sheet?
_ [E] And how do you like the new-found bride that's [A] lying in your [B] arms asleep?
Very well, very well, [E] do I like my pillow, [B] better do I like the sheet,
[E] but the best [A] one of all is [E] the pretty little girl that's a [A]-standing at my own [B] bed _ -feet. _ _
_ So early next [E] morning when William awoke, and most all men was at work,
Sweet William said he was troubled in his head by the dream that he dreamed [B] last night.
Such dreams, such dreams [E] I do not like, [B] such dreams they are no good.
[E] I dreamed that my hall was filled with wild swine, Lady [A] Margaret was drowning [B] in blood. _ _
So _ he called his comrade [E] to his side, and numbered them one, two, three,
and [A] the last one of them [E] go tell my bride, Lady [A] Margaret I've gone [B] to see.
_ He wrote till he came [E] to Lady _ Margaret's hall, [B]
put all on the ring,
[E] there's none so ready as Lady Margaret's brother, for to rise and let [B] him in.
_ _ _ _ Now is she in [E] the garden he said, [A] or is she [E] in the hall?
_ Or is she in the upper parlor [A]
among them [Em] [B] ladies _ all?
She neither is [E] in the garden he [B] said, nor yet into the hall,
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but yonder she lies in her cold coffin, _ with her [A] pale face turned [B] to the _ wall.
_ _ _ Lady Margaret was buried [E] in the old _ churchyard, William lay an eye her,
and out of her grave grew a red, red rose, and [A] out of his [B] a _ briar.
They grew and they grew [E] round the old church tower, [B] till they could grow no higher.
_ [E] They met and they twined in a true lover's knot, a red rose around the _ briar.
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_ _ Sweet William arose one May morning, and dressed himself in blue.
_ We want you to tell us something about the long love between Lady Margaret [B] and you.
_ I know nothing [E] of Lady _ Margaret's [B] love, I'm sure she don't love me.
[E] But tomorrow morning at eight o'clock, Lady Margaret my bride [B] shall see. _ _
_ _ Lady Margaret sat [E] in her own hall door, a-combing down her hair.
When she saw Sweet William come a-riding by, bringing [A] his new [B] bride home,
she first threw [E] down her ivory comb, [B] tied up her long yellow _ hair,
[E] and out of [A] the door went [E] this Lady Gay, _ _ to never return [B] any more. _ _ _
_ Now late that night [E] when William was in bed, and most all men was _ asleep,
_ Lady Margaret's ghost came to Sweet William's side, and stood at [A] his own [B] bed-feet,
saying, How do you like [E] your snow-white pillow?
[B] How do you like your sheet?
_ [E] And how do you like the new-found bride that's [A] lying in your [B] arms asleep?
Very well, very well, [E] do I like my pillow, [B] better do I like the sheet,
[E] but the best [A] one of all is [E] the pretty little girl that's a [A]-standing at my own [B] bed _ -feet. _ _
_ So early next [E] morning when William awoke, and most all men was at work,
Sweet William said he was troubled in his head by the dream that he dreamed [B] last night.
Such dreams, such dreams [E] I do not like, [B] such dreams they are no good.
[E] I dreamed that my hall was filled with wild swine, Lady [A] Margaret was drowning [B] in blood. _ _
So _ he called his comrade [E] to his side, and numbered them one, two, three,
and [A] the last one of them [E] go tell my bride, Lady [A] Margaret I've gone [B] to see.
_ He wrote till he came [E] to Lady _ Margaret's hall, [B]
put all on the ring,
[E] there's none so ready as Lady Margaret's brother, for to rise and let [B] him in.
_ _ _ _ Now is she in [E] the garden he said, [A] or is she [E] in the hall?
_ Or is she in the upper parlor [A]
among them [Em] [B] ladies _ all?
She neither is [E] in the garden he [B] said, nor yet into the hall,
[E]
but yonder she lies in her cold coffin, _ with her [A] pale face turned [B] to the _ wall.
_ _ _ Lady Margaret was buried [E] in the old _ churchyard, William lay an eye her,
and out of her grave grew a red, red rose, and [A] out of his [B] a _ briar.
They grew and they grew [E] round the old church tower, [B] till they could grow no higher.
_ [E] They met and they twined in a true lover's knot, a red rose around the _ briar.
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