Waly Waly chords by
June Tabor
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Key: Ab major
Verse 1
Oh,
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G

Waley,
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F

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G

Waley, up the bank,
And
Waley,
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F

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Eb

Waley, down the brave,
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G

An d
Waley,
Waley, up
Burnside,
Where I and my love used to go,
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Am

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F

I was a lady of high renown,
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G

That lived in the
North
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F

Country,
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G

I was a lady of high renown
When
Jamie
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Eb

Douglas courted me
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G

And when we came to
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Glasgow town
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G

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Eb

It was a comely sight to see
My
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G

Lord was clad in the velvet green,
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Eb

and I myself in crum was he.
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G

And when my eldest son was born,
and set upon his nurse's knee,
I was the happiest woman born,
And my good
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Eb

Lord, he loved me.
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G

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F

There came a man unto our house,
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G

And
Jamie
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Eb

Lockhart was his name,
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And it was told unto my lord,
That I did lie in bed with him.
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Eb

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F

There came another to our house,
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and he was no good friend to me.
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Eb

He put
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G

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Eb

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James's shoes beneath my bed,
and bade my good
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Eb

Lord come and see.
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Oh woe be unto thee,
Blackwood,
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Gm

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G

and then in death may you die.
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You were the first and the foremost man
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That parted my good
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Lord and
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I.
And when my
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Lord came to my room,
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This great falsehood for to see,
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He turned him round all with a scowl,
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Eb

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And not one word would
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he speak to me.
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G

Come up, come up now,
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F

Jamie
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G

Douglas, come up the stair
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Eb

and dine with me.
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D

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I'll set you on a chair of gold an
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d court you kindly on my knee.
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G

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When cockleshells turn silver bells an
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d fishes fly from tree to tree,
When frost and snow turn fire to burn,
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Eb

It's I who'll come up and dine with thee.
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O woe be unto thee,
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G

Blackwood, when the nil -deaths may die!
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F

You were the first and foremost
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man that parted my good lord and
I.
And when my father
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Edward, my good lord, had forsaken me
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Eb

He sent fifty of his brisk dragoons
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To fetch me home to my own country.
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Oh, had I wist when first I kissed
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G

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Eb

That love should be so ill to win
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G

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D

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I'd locked my heart in a cage of gold
And pinned it with a silver pin
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Eb

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You'd think that I am like yourself,
And lie with each one that I see,
But I do swear by the heavens high,
I never loved a man but thee.
It is not the frost that freezes fell
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G

Nor blowing snows
in clemency
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G

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It is not such cold that makes me cry
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Eb

But my love's heart grown cold to me
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Oh, waily, waily, love is bonny,
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A little while when first it's new,
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But love grows old and waxes gold,
And fades away like morning dew.
you

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