Key: F major
Verse 1
Bb
C
dark and strong
F
Dm
Farewell, farewell to thee
F
Bb
C
Macpherson's time will not be long
F
Bb
F
C
F
On yonder gallows tree
Dm
F
C
He played a tune and danced it aroon
F
Bb
F
Below the gallows -tree
T 'was by a woman's
Bb
Gm
C
treacherous hand
F
Dm
That I was condemned to die
Bb
C
come to her side,
F
Bb
F
Where in wait my foes did lie.
You cannot take my fiddle,
Bb
C
though you took my sword,
F
Dm
And bound these hands in chains.
Bb
C
though I be dead and gone,
F
Bb
F
from Scotland's hills and plains.
F
Dm
say duntily gay thee.
F
C
He played a tune and danced it aroon
F
Bb
F
Fm
below the gallows tree.
There's some come here
F#
Fm
Bbm
Fm
Some to buy my fiddle,
But before I part with the
Bbm
C
only friend I have,
Fm
Bbm
Fm
I'll break o 'er through the middle.
Fm
C
say done to me, gay D.
Fm
C
He played a tune and danced it a room
Fm
Bbm
Fm
F
below the gallows tree.
The reprieve was coming
Bb
C
at the break of day
F
Dm
To set my fears set free
Bb
C
who would wait no more
F
Bb
F
And they hanged him to a tree
F
Dm
Say he'd done till he gave in
F
C
And he played no more as he had before
F
Bb
F
He was hanged from the gallows tree
C
F
He was hanged.
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