Mistletoe Bough chords by Jon Boden

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Verse 1
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The mistletoe
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hung in the old castle hall
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The holly brunch stood on the old oak wall
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And the baron's retainers
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were blithe and gay
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Keeping their Christmas holiday
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And the baron beheld
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with a father's pride
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His beautiful child, young Lovell's bride
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And she, with her bright eyes,
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seemed to be
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The pride of the goodly company
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Oh, the mistletoe bough
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Oh, the mistletoe bough
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I'm weary of dancing
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now, she cried
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Here, tarry a mo ment,
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I'll hide, I'll hide
But love will be sure that
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the first to trace
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The clue to my secret hiding place
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Then away she ran
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and her friends began
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Each tower to search, each nook to scan
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An d lovel, he cried,
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where dost thou hide?
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I'm lonely without you,
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my own dear bride
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Oh, the mistletoe bow
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Oh, the mistletoe bow
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They searched that night,
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they searched the next day
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They searched all around
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till the week went away
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the lonesomest spot
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Young Lovell sought wildly
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but found her not
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And the years went by
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and their grief at last
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Was told as a sorrowful tale long past
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And when Lovell appeared
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all the children cried
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See the old man weep for his fairy bride
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O  'er the mistletoe bow,
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O 'er the mistletoe bow
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At length an old chest
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that had long lain hid
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Was found in the attic, they raised the lid
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A  skeleton form lay mouldering there
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In the bridal wreath of a lady so fair
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Oh, sad was her fate in sport and jest
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She hid from her love in an old oak chest
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It closed with the spring
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and the bridal bloom
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Lay withering there in a living tomb
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Oh, the mistletoe bound
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Oh, the mistletoe bound