Died for love chords by Martin Carthy

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Verse 1
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Bm 
C 
Bm 
I wish my baby it was born
Em 
Bm 
An  d smiling on
C 
Bm 
his daddy's knee
C 
Bm 
Dm 
And I, poor girl, was in my grave
C 
With a long green grass
Bm 
C 
Bm 
C 
growing all over me
Bm 
Em 
Bm 
Am 
Bm 
Oh, grief, oh, and I'll tell you why
C 
Em 
Bm 
F#m 
Because she has more gold than I
Bm 
Em 
Bm 
F#m 
Bm 
Em 
He  takes this young girl on his knee
And he tells her tales
C 
that he won't tell me
G 
Em 
C 
Bm 
C 
I wish, I   wish, but it's all in vain
Em 
C 
I wish I was a sweet maid again
Bm 
But I'm ain't a -gettin' I never shall be
F 
C 
Till apples grow on an or ange tree
Em 
C 
Bm 
C 
Dig me my grave long, wide, and  deep
Em 
F 
C 
Put a marble stone at my head and feet
Bm 
And at my breast place a white snow dove,
For to let the world know that I died for love.