Chords for Silly Wizard Live - Willie Archer and The Banks of the Bann

_ _ _ Thanks very much indeed.
Well, you're not as tough as you thought
I'm _ gonna sing you a maybe a different kind of a song.
It's not really a love song as such
Maybe it is.
I don't know.
It's a lost song _
_ That _ was Johnny Cunningham there you'll
_ You'll hear a lot more of him before the night
Is out no doubt
_ song we're going to sing you right now is a song from
From the north of Ireland and it tells a story about how a young girl decides one day
She's gonna go out on a nice well one evening
in fact, she's gonna go out in a nice summer's evening take a walk down beside the river Bann _ and
On the first time I heard this song.
I thought to myself
Now if this woman
_ Has heard any of the other?
_ 500 songs that are all called the banks of the Bann _ and she's still going down there _
_ _ Then she's out of her mind because
_ There's always you know some young cad there, you know sort of cutting around and _
there's always a you know, a bit of misbehavior well quite a lot of misbehavior actually and
Tears and recriminations and maybe a kid involved somewhere _ _
It's an age-old story, but the stressing nonetheless
_ You know, that's how these songs always tend to go and I I just couldn't help thinking
There's tons of space you can go anywhere.
You don't have to go down there
_ It's just not worth it
She goes off down there anyway, and she falls in with this young
_ silver-tongued young devil young sort of a
daring young Celt _
_ _ _ _ Based _ _ _ _ _ _
this is all based loosely around, you know the life of Johnny here _ _ and
_ _ She's walking down the bank of the river
And she she falls in with this young cad and within within seconds within seconds
He tries to lead her astray
_ Mm-hmm and to be fair to him _ he meets with fabulous success _
Thank _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ you fellow cads
_ He meets with great success there, but you know, their happiness was kind of short-lived really because she starts into asking him
_ probing and searching questions into his private life and affairs _
_ Asking him things like his name
_ _ Oh, you know he he backs off as you would imagine in
_ nearly panics, you know that _ but he
He keeps enough of the head together anyway, just to come up with a bit of a story
He tells her that he's apprenticed as a weaver to the weave and trading as an apprentice
He he couldn't afford to support a wife far less a wife and maybe a family
_ So he tells her that if he can go away finish his apprenticeship get his career together
He was a kind of an Irish Celtic sort of early sort of yuppie kind of character this you know
He said if you could get his his career together, and he would come back
And he would marry her and take great care of her and everything.
You'll find that in a lot of songs, too
[G#] It's called the great Celtic lie
_ Anyway, _ [N] the whole thing finishes up with a with a warning to young women
_ I'm not quite sure
Specifically what the warning is against but it seems _
To be a sort of general warning if you're a good-looking woman _ in Ireland _ just not to go outside
_ _ That's _ _ as specific as it really gets _
So _ _ _ _ here we go then
It's called Willie Archer on the banks of the band _ _ _
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_ _ _ As I was [D] walking [E] down by [A] Yonmill town
[E] Oh the fair and [F#m] lovely [E] mountains [A]
there that [E] me [F#m] surround
I [E] spied a pretty [F#] [E] fair maid [A]
auntie [E] Michellou [F#m] Grand
[D] She [A] was plucking [Bm] wild roses [E] on the banks [A] of the band
So I stepped up to [D] the [Bm] spare one [E] and to [C#m] her I did [A] say _
[E] Since nature [F#m] has [C#m] farmed us far [A] to meet [E] on [F#m] this day
[E] Since nature has farmed us [A] won't you give me [C#m] [F#m] your hand
[D] [A] And we'll [D] walk together [Bm] [E] on the banks [A] of the band
Now it'd be in the [D] summer's evening [E] and a fine [A] quiet place
I [E] knew by [F#m] the [E]
blushes [A] that appeared on [F#m] her face
[E] We both lay [F#m] down [E]
together
[A] Onto [E] a [F#m] bed of sand [D] [A] and she rolled into [D] my [Bm] arms [E] on the banks [A] of [D] the band
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Oh young man, you [D] have wronged me [E] won't you tell me [A] your name
So [E] that when my [F#m] babe is [E] born I [A] can give [C#m] it the [F#m] same
[E] My name is [F#m] Willie [E] Archer [A] and I'll have you _ [F#m] understand
[D] That [A] my home
_ [D] Inhabitation [Bm] [E] lies close [A] to the band but I cannot [D] marry you
[E] For [A] apprentice time bound [E] to the spinning [F#m] and the [E] waving [A] in [E] Rathrieland [F#m] town
[E] Oh, but when my [F#m] time is [E] over [A] I'll give you [C#m] my [F#m] hand
[D] _ [A] We will [D] be married [Bm] [E] on the banks [A] of the band
So come all you [D] pretty fair maids [E] take a warning [A] by me
[E] Don't go [F#m] out of [E] court at [A] one too [F#m]
early
[E] Don't go out of court [A] so late if [D] you can
[A] Or you'll meet [D] with Willie [Bm] Archer [E] on the banks [A]
of the [D] band
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