Sweet William chords by 
Johnny Flynn 
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Key: E minor•
Intro 1
Em
C
Em
E
Em
C
G
C
Verse 1
Em
Will you put
down your fiddle young Willie
C
Will you put down your fiddle and pray
G
C
That the world has be gun with
G
C
the birth of the sun
Em
And its death the very same day
Verse 2
Em
G
Bm
"Now kiss me young lover" cried
D
Maggie the glover
A
C
G
"We're a village of babes and I'm
D
over the moon"
Em
G
"Where's all your fellas,
Bm
those young buck propellers,"
D
A
C
G
Cried Willie who swam in
D
the room full of
Verse 3
Em
Will you put down your
fiddle young Willie
C
Will you put down your fiddle and pray
G
C
That the world has be gun with
G
C
the birth of the sun
Em
And its death the very same day
C
Still
Verse 4
G
Em
the fiddle brightly sung,
C
Bm
D
its horn pipe playing
G
Em
It's a Londonderry tun e,
G
C
long gone's the after noon
G
C
We'll sing "ever and more
G
Em
and ever will be"
G
The old men he'd
Verse 5
seen,
Bm
all cracked teeth with glee
D
A
C
Brought gold for the boy
G
D
who could carry all time
Em
G
For they in dear guardian
Bm
ship sailing and broken
D
A
C
G
Ship wizened and aged in
D
pursuit of the wine
Em
G
"It's not what I came
Verse 6
for,"
Bm
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cried Will with dis dain for
A
C
The din an d the clamour
G
D
of faucet s undone
Em
G
Til a glimpse of per fection
Bm
D
in Sally's re flection
A
C
In a mirror that carried her
G
D
light like the sun
Em
Will you put down your
Verse 7
Em
fiddle young Willie
Will you put down your fiddle
C
and pray (right now)
G
C
That the world has be gun with
G
C
the birth of the sun
Em
And its death the very same day
Verse 8
G
With Will in the mid st an
Bm
d no heat to desist
A
C
The gentrified stock
G
D
who had seen off the
Em
G
Bm
And laughed at the lad seeing all that he had
D
A
C
And whispered their praise
G
D
to the soul of his sword
Em
G
If Will had known
Verse 9
better,
Bm
D
he'd not have known better
A
C
G
And his tory's song would
D
have ended with time
Em
G
Bm
So it's lucky for learn ing
D
that history's yearning
A
C
G
Is not in repeating but
D
for something that rhymes
Verse 10
Em
Will you pick up your fiddle young
Willie (pick it up)
C
Will you pick up your fiddle and play
G
C
For the world has be gun
G
C
with the birth of the sun
Em
And its death the very same day
C
Still
Verse 11
G
D
Em
the fiddle brightly sung,
C
Bm
D
its horn pipe play ing
G
Em
It's a Londonderry tun e,
G
long gone's the afternoon
C
G
C
G
Em
C
Em
E
We'll sing "ever and more and ever will
Em
Bm
C
G
C
Em
C
G
C
Em
C
G
C
be"
Outro 1
Em
C
G
C
G
C
Em
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