Royal Forester Chords by Steeleye Span

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_ [B] I am a forester of this land, as ye may plainly see,
It's the mantle of your maidenhead that I [A] would have for me.
[B] With me, Brue, rum-rur-a-dee-ri, rum-rur-a-dee [A]-ri, no, [B] I'll be Anne.
It's taken her by the milk, right _ _ _ [F#m] _ _
upon her back, and I ask it [E] no man sleep.
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[B] With me, Brue, rum-rur-a-dee-ri, rum-rur-a-dee [A]-ri, no, [B] I'll be Anne.
Now, since you've laid me down, take me up [F#m] again,
Since you've had your wills of me, come [B] tell to me your name.
With me, Brue, rum-rur-a-dee-ri, rum-rur-a-dee [A]-ri, no, [B] I'll be Anne.
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[B] _ Some call me Jim, [Bm] some call me John, forget it all the same.
[A] From the [D] kings I [B] caught a Willie, and [A] he's me name.
[B] With me, Brue, rum-rur-a-dee-ri, rum-rur-a-dee [F#]-ri, no, [Bm] I'll be Anne.
She'd be naked, scarlet, spelt it all right, the _ _
[A] [D] Latin [B] word, but Willie [A] is your name.
[B] With me, Brue, rum-rur-a-dee-ri, rum-rur-a-dee [Am]-ri, no, [Bm] I'll be Anne.
Now, when he heard his neighbour in the mountain, his eye-hole, _ [A] and bet [D] he [B] couldn't find,
We [A] all are foes.
[B] With me, Brue, rum-rur-a-dee-ri, rum-rur [A]-a-dee-ri, no, I'll [Bm] be Anne. _ _ _ _
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[B] _ He rode and [Bm] she ran along some other day,
Until they came [A] on the river [C#m] that's only [A] got the day.
[B] With me, Brue, rum-rur-a-dee-ri, rum-rur [A]-a-dee-ri, no, [Bm] I'll be Anne.
The water, it's too deep, my love, and my brain, it cannot wait.
But before he'd [A] ridden his horse, well, then, she was on the other side.
[B] With me, Brue, rum-rur-a-dee-ri, rum-rur-a-dee [A]-ri, no, [B] I'll be Anne.
[Bm] She went up to the king's high door, she knocked and she went in,
Said, Willie, your [E] chancellor's robbed me, and he's robbed [C#m] me right [A] and clean.
[B] With me, Brue, rum-rur-a-dee-ri, rum-rur-a [A]-dee-ri, [B] no, I'll be Anne.
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[B] _ Has he robbed you of [Bm] your mantle?
Has he robbed you of your ring?
No, he's robbed [D] me of my [B] maidenhead and another I [A] cannot find.
[B] With me, Brue, rum-rur-a-dee-ri, rum-rur-a-dee [A]-ri, no, [B] I'll be Anne.
Then if he be a [Bm] married man, then he shall be a _
[A] [D] single [B] man, he shall [C#m] marry thee.
[B] With me, Brue, rum-rur-a-dee-ri, rum-rur-a-dee [A]-ri, [B] no, I'll be Anne.
This couple they [Bm] could marry, they live in Hunsley town.
She's the Earl [A] of [D] Ely's daughter, [B] and he's the [A] blacksmith's son.
[B] With me, Brue, rum-rur-a-dee-ri, rum-rur-a [A]-dee-ri, [Bm] no, I'll be Anne. _ _ _
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