Chords for The Maiden and the Selkie

This is a song that I [Fm] really wish I could claim to have written, but it's by a dear friend of [C] mine, Emily Holberg.
She [Dbm] is based [Cm] in Toronto.
She was originally [Ab] from London, [Db] Ontario, which is considerably smaller than London, England.
[Cm] [Ab] And Emily writes, as I do, [Fm] songs inspired by legends and old folk tales.
And this one [Db] goes up to [E] Scotland, specifically to the Far [Ab] Isles, to the [G] Hebrides and the [Fm] Orkneys,
[Cm] where they still tell _
[Fm] [B] tales of [Db] the [Cm] Scottish fairy [Bb] folk known as the [Fm] Selkies.
Now the Selkies, look!
Oh dear, we've got a Selkie [Eb] woman in the audience.
No, no, no, I [Ab] know people that have [G] seen them.
Oh, [C] fantastic.
Brilliant.
[Fm] Old fashioned.
We'll talk in the break, [Eb] yeah.
[Ab] Well, they always say, even [G] today, there's good folk [F] stories saying that if there's a really lucky fishing family,
it's [C] probably because the Selkie [Db] woman married into the family [Ab] some [Ebm] generations back,
and that good luck [Fm] has followed down [Gb] through the bloodline.
[Cm] Because [Fm] Selkies, while they [Ab] swim around looking like seals [Bb] in the ocean [F] during the day,
at night, if they choose, they can take off this [Fm] sealskin [C] jacket that they wear,
and [Abm] step out on shore, tall [Cm] and graceful.
Now, for whatever [Gbm] reason, the female Selkies have [Cm] a much stronger magic than the male [Ab] Selkies.
The [Eb] female Selkies, once they have [Bb] shrugged off this coat at [C] dusk, can stay on shore as long [Ab] as they choose.
[Gm] They [Ab] can marry and [Fm] live and die as a mortal woman [C] if they choose.
But a male [Bb] Selkie can only stay on [Eb] shore in human [Ab] guise until midnight.
[G] And if he doesn't [Fm] have his jacket back on and his back in [C] the ocean, [Bb] he dissolves away into nothing, and that's [Ab] the end of him.
So, if, as in this tale, a [G] male Selkie comes [Fm] ashore to pay court [Eb] to a fisherman's daughter in one of the [Ab] fishing villages,
they [F] have to get a bit more creative.
[F] Ooh.
[Gm] _ _
Once a fair and handsome seal lord
[N] lay his foot upon the sand
for to woo the fisher's daughter
and to claim her marriage hand
I have come in from the ocean
I have come in from the sea
and [D] I'll not go to the waves, love, lest you come along with me.
_ Lord, [Eb] how have I helped you?
As a Selkie on [A] the foam
I [D] would gladly go and wed you
and be lady [A] of your home
but I [Bb] cannot go [G] into the [D] ocean
I cannot go into the sea
I would drown beneath the waves, [Gm] love
if I [Dm] went along with you.
_ _ Lady, [F] how have I loved you?
[Am] I would [C] have you for my wife
I will stay [F] upon your shore land
[C] though it robs me of my life
I will stay one night beside you
never go back [Cm] to the sea
I will stay and be [F] thy husband
though it be the death of me. _
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Lord, I will not [C] go and wed thee
Just to watch my lover die, Since I'll not be left a widow.
I have a plan for us to try, Let us speak with my grandmother,
Who never dwelt beside the sea.
She [F] may know some trick or treasure, But I knew it my fair [Dm] Selkie.
_ So I've gone [C] to her grandmother's Little cottage by the sea,
To inquire how the maiden might be wed to a Selkie.
For the Selkie's watery kingdom Surely will prove her breath.
But to stay on land past midnight, It [F] would surely be [C] Israel.
_ Lord, I know not how to aid you.
You may never live on shore.
For your kind to live till dawning Has never been seen before.
But my mother had a seal coat That she buried beneath a tree,
And she told me that its wearer Would become a fair [F] Selkie.
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_ So they've journeyed [F] farther inland, [C] Though the seal lord's getting weak,
And she's shouldering the shovel To unearth the thing they seek.
And at the rising of the moon, Underneath the Elphid oak,
She's unearthed that very treasure Of which her grandmother spoke.
_ _ Just before [Dm] the stroke of midnight, They have made it back to sea,
And she's done that magic seal coat And become [G] a maid Selkie.
[C] They have brought it to the ocean, And in the end it would seem
She has gone _ _ _ along A fair [F] seal bride to the king. Switch.
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