cold and raw chords by
June Tabor
June Tabor
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Key: G major
Verse 1
Am
Am

G
G

Am
Am

Cold and raw the
G
G

North did blow
Am
Am

Em
Em

Bleak in the morning early
Am
Am

G
G

All the trees were hid in snow
Am
Am

G
G

Dagl'd by winter yearly
C
C

Dsus4
Dsus4

G
G

Gentleman riding o'er the heather
Am
Am

G
G

Met with a farmer's daughter
C
C

G
G

Her rosy cheeks and her bonny brow
Am
Am

They made his mouth to water
Verse 2
Am
Am

G
G

Quickly he saluted me
Am
Am

Meaning to shew his breeding
G
G

I bowed to him right gracefully
Am
Am

His courtesy exceeding
G
G

C
C

G
G

He asked me where I went so soon
Am
Am

And longed to begin a parley
G
G

C
C

G
G

I told him, to the next market town
Am
Am

A- purpose to sell me barley
Verse 3
Am
Am

G
G

"In this purse, sweet girl," says he
Am
Am

Em
Em

"T wenty pounds lie fairly
Am
Am

G
G

Seek no further one to buy
Am
Am

G
G

For I'll take all your barley
C
C

G
G

Twenty more would buy delight
Am
Am

Dsus4
Dsus4

Your body I love so dearly
G
G

C
C

G
G

If you would lay with me all night
Am
Am

And go home in the morning early"
Interlude 1
Am
Am

G
G

Am
Am

Em
Em

Am
Am

G
G

Am
Am

Dsus4
Dsus4

G
G

C
C

G
G

Am
Am

G
G

C
C

G
G

Am
Am

Verse 4
Am
Am

G
G

"If twenty pounds could buy the globe
Am
Am

Em
Em

It's this I'd never do, sir
Am
Am

G
G

Or were me kin as poor as Job
Am
Am

G
G

I would not raise 'em so, sir
C
C

G
G

If I lay with you this night
Am
Am

G
G

We'd get a young child together
C
C

And you'd be gone ere
G
G

the nine months end
Am
Am

And where should I find a father?"
Verse 5
Am
Am

G
G

He told me he had married been
Am
Am

Em
Em

Fourteen years and longer
Am
Am

G
G

Or else he'd take me for his own
Am
Am

Dsus4
Dsus4

G
G

And tie the knot much stronger
C
C

G
G

I bade him then, no further roam
Am
Am

G
G

But manage his wedlock fairly
C
C

And keep his gold for his
G
G

wife at home
Am
Am

And some other shall have my barley

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ChordsAm G Em C Dsus4

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