Key: D minor
Verse 1
and he lives like the wind
Dm
Am
His eyes shine like the silver
Dm
Am
or golden morning sun
Oh friend John, oh dear John,
do you see what I see?
Dm
Am
You understand the first woman
Dm
Am
that ever loved me
And here's a clover, clover, John
F
Am
It's lined with sil ver grey
Am
Dm
Am
To come to her young Billy
And here's a ring, a ring, John
F
Am
It's all gold but the stone
Dm
Am
Dm
Give it to her and tell her
C
Dm
Am
To ask for leave of none
C
Am
Oh, Billy, oh, dear Billy
I'll not go to nobody
F
Em
Am
To steal their wife away
Oh, friend John, oh, dear John
F
Am
Swim not against the tide
F
Dm
C
Be with me in the stream, John,
Em
Am
for I will be your bait
John ran down to the high house,
F
Dm
Em
he rang low at the door
Am
Dm
F
Who was there but this woman
Dm
Em
Am
to let young Johnny in?
Here's a glove, a glove lady,
F
C
it's lined with silver grey
Dm
Am
It bids you come to the green wood,
F
Am
to meet your young Billy
F
C
all gold but the stone
Dm
Am
C
It bids you come to the green wood
Em
G
Bm
Am
and ask for leave of none
Husband stood in the shadow,
F
C
an angry man was he
Dm
F
I never thought the man lived,
Dm
C
and dressed in her array
F
Am
And like some woman he's gone down
Em
E
Am
to find this young Billy
Billy sat in the green wood,
F
C
he whistled and he sang
Dm
F
Yonder comes the woman
Em
Dm
C
Billy ran down and down there
F
Am
to meet her when she came
G
F
Oh, the sight that he saw,
G
Em
his heart grew still as stone
Dm
Am
Husband he had a long knife,
Bm
F
it hung down by his knee
Dm
F
He took the head of young Billy,
Em
Am
F
Am
off his fair body
G
F
Am
Dm
Am
He's run home and home there
And down into his home
Tossed Billy's head to her
G
Am
Em
Crying, lady, catch the ball
Am
C
Em
And she's taken up
F
Em
the hat there,
G
Dm
Am
Dm
she's kissed it cheek and chin
C
F
I love better this hat,
Dm
D
Am
than all my kith and kin
She's taken up the hat there,
and hooked it to her womb
F
C
I was once full of this boy,
Dm
Am
as the plum is full of the stone
F
Am
F
Am
in my vir ginity
C
F
Dm
A young man came to my room,
G
Am
and we got young believe
I loved him in my room in
F
Dm
C
secrecy and shame
Am
Dm
G
I loved him in the green wood
C
G
Am
all out in wind and rain
C
Am
I will kiss his sweet head and
Dm
F
Am
I will kiss
C
F
Am
Em
And I will vow to stay true,
Am
G
Am
an air -loved man again
Em
F
Had I known he was your son,
Dm
C
he would not have been killed by me
G
Am
If I'd have known he was your son,
Em
Am
he would not have been killed by me.
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