Key: F major
Intro 1
G
Dsus4
G
Asus4
A
Asus4
Dsus4
Verse 1
D
G
Martha went down to the well,
Dsus4
G
to where her love lay sleeping
Dsus4
D
G
His coat was torn, his skin was pale,
Dsus4
G
his face was stained from weeping
Dsus4
Asus4
D
She woke him up with a tender kiss
Dsus4
D
G
and asked why he was grieving
Dsus4
Asus4
D
Dsus4
He said they'll never let us be,
G
Bm
G
so I must be leaving
Asus4
A
For your true love I'm leav
Dsus4
G
Asus4
Dsus4
ing
D
G
Oh tell me love why you must go,
D
G
what have I done to hurt you
Dsus4
D
G
What is it here that grieves you so
D
Dsus4
G
and why can't my love hold you?
A
D
He closed his eyes and he saw his father's
Bm
G
face all red from screaming
Dsus4
Asus4
That working girl won't
D
Dsus4
be your wife
G
Bm
G
Asus4
That's just a poet's dreaming and a young
Dsus4
G
Asus4
D
Dsus4
girl's idle scheming
D
G
She walked him home and on the way
D
G
His sister she lay waiting
D
G
You callous boy, you selfish boy
D
G
Your mother's heart is breaking
To
A
D
Martha then she raised her hand saying
Asus4
G
You must go and leave him
Dsus4
Asus4
He's the apple on
Bm
G
And you are far beneath him
A
Dsus4
G
Asus4
A
D
leave him
Dsus4
D
G
All that night he stayed away
Six nights more was missing
Dsus4
G
They found him on
the windswept moor
Death's icy hands around him
Dsus4
G
On silken sheets they laid him
Dsus4
Asus4
A
And with his failing breath
D
G
he prayed for
Bm
G
Martha to come see him,
A
Asus4
A
Dsus4
G
Asus4
A
D
Dsus4
and death's cold hand s to free him
D
G
Imath, their uninvited, came
D
G
To where her love was lying
Dsus4
D
G
An orange for his milk -white skin
Dsus4
D
G
And comfort in his dying
Gsus2
A
D
His sister sat at his deathbed
Dsus4
Asus4
A
D
G
Bm
G
But with his final breath he sighed, I'll hold you close come evening,
Asus4
A
Asus4
Dsus4
D
G
D
G
Dsus4
D
and only she could hear him
G
Asus4
A
D
Dsus4
G
Bm
She stumbled through
Bm
G
And heard the death -bell tolling
Bm
G
Weak with fear and blind with grief
Bm
G
She gave in to the falling
A
Asus4
D
A passing stranger caught her there,
Dsus4
D
Asus4
Bm
G
I hear death's angel calling
Asus4
A
D
G
And life by grief is freed from me,
and my poor heart is broken
Asus4
D
Dsus4
Since my sweet love was taken
G
Dsus4
D
Asus4
D
Dsus4
D
G
Martha went down to the well
Dsus4
D
G
And saw her true love sleeping
D
G
His coat was torn, his skin was pale
Dsus4
G
And she lay down beside him
A
In
Asus4
A
D
Where love an d death
Dsus4
G
Bm
G
They lay at last together,
Asus4
A
G
Dsus4
G
Dsus4
G
D
G
their true love sealed forever
A
D
A
D
G
D
you
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