Key: B major•
Verse 1
And he's combing his cold black steed
He's doubting on fair Margaret's love
And his heart begins to bleed
Give corn unto my horse, mother
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B
Before the night comes on
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F#
B
For your own supper will be
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F#
As I value not a bin
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E
But I'll away to Margaret's bow
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F#
B
Before the night sets in
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F#
Cost me thrice thirty pounds
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E
And I'll trust in his swift feet
And the noise that was in
E
Clydewater
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F#
B
would have feared five hundred men
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F#
your streams are wondrous strong
F#m
B
E
Make me a wreck as I come back,
Em
Edim
B
Em
Edim
B
Oh, when he's gone to
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F#
calling May Margaret's name?
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E
It's only your first love,
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F#
The stable's full of hay
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E
And the bower's full of gentlemen
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F#
Down your downy deck
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E
And rushing in the cloud water
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F#
B
To will his cane from him
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F#
to catch his hat by force
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E
But the rushing in the Clyde water
Em
Edim
B
Dm
B
E
B
E
F#
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E
On the very hour that young man
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F#
read my dreary dream
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E
I dreamed my lover was at our gates
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F#
B
and nobody let him in
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F#
down to the river's brim
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E
And the louder that this lady cried,
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F#
she waded to her knee
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E
Says she I will wade farther in,
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F#
B
she found sweet William in
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F#
I have had another
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B
E
An d now I'll sleep in the clean water,
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B
G#m
Gaug
like sister and like brother
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B
B
G#m
Gaug
G
G
Gaug
Baug
Thank
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsB F# E F#m Em...
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