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The Merry Wake chords by 
Alasdair Roberts
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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Will you come to the merry wake,
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my bonnie lassie?
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Come to the merry wake,
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my bonnie bride.
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Come to the merry wake,
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oh for your lover's sake.
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Bonnie St Kentigern stands upon the line
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All the day long we'll
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be drinking like masons
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Mixing the gunpowder into the wine
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Fixing our liquor in baptismal basins
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Bonnie St Kentigern
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stands upon the line
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Choirs of liars are silently keening
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The gospel of woman, the mirror at home
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Seeing the deniers,
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they bring a demeaning
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Religion that rose from the sewers of
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Rome
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The sound of our music
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is shrouded in linen
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The pipe and the drum
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under cold iron sway
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Venerable Lucian, a nobleman,
tremendous will
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Lay down their weapons
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and soon pass away
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The whole of the kingdom is
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clouded in brimstone
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Sons against fathers and fathers
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against sons collar to shoulder,
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thy moon to shepherd near,
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never was heard such confusion of tones.
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In hour of mayhem, in time of misgiving
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Some turned to pastor,
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some turned to priest
Some would consort with
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the miserable living
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But we'd rather sport with
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the gleeful deceased
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So strike up the ceilidh
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and lay down your burdens
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The queen of the unseen abodes
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in the room
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It's not the round rial,
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it's not the gay gardens
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She'll dance a dark morse
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all over your tomb
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The ranton and the shaker
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and the wife of the quaker
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Under the cypress trees all join as
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The glum undertaker will
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take to their maker
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Their bodies relieved
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of all tiresome de mands
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The scribes and the clerics
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like tribes of hysterics
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Will hectically dervish
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and turn with their shams
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Be merry until they heretically perish then
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Ascend on their merits or
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swing for their sins
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And the Lord lends his everlasting arms
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In an answer to your little prayers
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For the womb that begets
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And the worm that devours
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So, flame yourself into
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a cluster of rapture,
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a new world will rise from the lens of evil.
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Won't you come to the merry wick,
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my bonnie lassie,
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to the merry wick, my bonnie mae?
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To the merry wick,
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for your lover's sake,
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you always owe me a cock
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stride away.
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Won't you to the merry wick,
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my bonnie lassie,
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to the merry wick, my bonnie mae?
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To the merry wick, for your lover's sake,
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you always owe me a cock stride away.
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To the merry wake, bonnie lassie
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To the merry wake, bonnie mae
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To the merry wake for
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your lover's sake
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New world is on the outcrops right away
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The world is only a clock straight away you
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