Chords for Two Sisters

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_ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Two [C] little sisters living in a [Cm] bower,
_ _ _ Oleander yowling.
The youngest _ was the fairest flower,
Down by the [Gm] waters rolling.
_ A noble knight [Dm]
came [Cm] riding by,
_ _ Oleander _ _ yowling.
_ Two [Eb] little sisters [Gm] caught his eye,
[Cm] Down by the waters [Gm] rolling.
[Cm] And he courted the eldest [Gm] with diamonds and [Cm] rings, _
_ _ Oleander yowling.
The other he loved above all [Gm] things,
Down by the waters rolling. _
_ [Cm] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ [Cm] _ Sister, sister, come down to the broom,
_ _ Oleander _ yowling.
We'll hear the birds change their tune,
Down by the [G] waters rolling.
_ So she took her sister by [Cm] the hand, _ _ _
Oleander yowling.
_ And led her down to the river's strand,
Down by the waters rolling.
_ And as they stood at the river's brim,
_ _ Oleander _ _ yowling.
The eldest _ pushed her sister _ [C] in. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Sister, sister, reach me your hand, _ _ _
Oleander [C] yowling.
And [Cm] you'll be the heir to my riches and land,
Down by the waters [Ab] rolling.
_ [Cm] Oh, sister, sister, that'll never be, _
_ _ Oleander yowling.
Till salt and [C] oatmeal grow of a tree,
Down by the waters rolling. _
Oh, sister, sister, [Cm] lend me but your glove,
_ _ _ Oleander yowling.
And you shall [C] have my own true [Cm] love,
Down by the waters rolling.
_ [C] It's your own [Cm] true love I'll have and more, _ _ _ _
Oleander yowling.
But you shall never _ come [Fm] to shore, _
_ For your cherry cheeks and your long yellow [Cm] hair, _ _ _ _
Oleander yowling.
Made me a maid _ _ _ forevermore. _ _
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_ _ _ [C] Sometime she sank, _
[F] sometime she [C] swam, _ _ _
[Cm] Oleander _ yowling.
_ Till she came to a [Fm] miller's dam,
[Cm]
By the [C] waters rolling.
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_ _ _ The miller and his daughter stood at the door, _ _
Oleander _ _ yowling.
And watched her body [Fm] floating to shore, _
Down in the waters [Bm] rolling.
[Cm] _ Oh, _ father, father, draw your dam,
_ _ Oleander [Fm] _ [Cm] yowling.
For it's either a mermaid or a swan,
Down in the waters rolling.
_ The miller, he dragged her out into the shore, _ _ _ _
Oleander yowling.
And he stripped her of all that she [G] wore,
Down in [Gm] the waters [D] rolling.
_ He [Cm] laid her body on [C] the bank to dry, _
_ _ Oleander yowling. _ _
A minstrel he came riding by,
Down by the waters [C] rolling.
_ And he made a harp [Cm] of her breastbone,
_ _ _ Oleander [C] _ yowling.
Whose sound could melt a _ heart of stone.
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[Cm] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Fm] _ _
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[D] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _
[Cm] He took three locks from her long yellow hair,
_ _ [C] Oleander _ yowling.
_ With them strung a harp so rare,
_ [Cm] Down by the waters rolling.
_ And he took the harp to the [G] king's high hall,
[C] _ _ Oleander _ _ yowling.
_ [Eb] There was [F] a court [G] assembled [Eb] [D] all,
Down [Cm] by the waters rolling.
And he laid the harp [Ab] there [Cm] upon a stone, _
_ Oleander _ yowling.
[Eb] The [F] harp began [Cm] to play _ alone.
[G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
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_ [G] _ _ [Eb] [D] But the only [C]
tune that the harp would play,
[Ab] Was _ [Cm] Oleander _ yowling.
The [C] only tune that the [Cm] harp would [D] play,
Down [C] by the waters rolling.
_ It sang yonder sits [Ab] my [Cm] love the king,
_ _ _ Oleander _ yowling.
_ How he'll weep at my [C] burying,
By the [Cm] waters rolling.
_ _ And yonder sits [C] my sister the [Cm] queen, _ _ _
Oleander _ _ [C] yowling.
_ She drowned me in the cold, cold _ _ stream, _ _ _
Down in the waters _ rolling.
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