Key: B minor
Verse 1
D
F#m
in its bright and silky dress
A
E
Why do I feel depressed my love?
Bm
When the curtains wave their shadows across
D
F#m
C#m
your white and milky breast
F#m
A
Bm
Why do I feel unrest, my love?
C#m
D
in me this fright of our parting?
Bm
Verse 2
Then at the break of day, my love,
Em
D
F#m
where have you gone away
A
E
With not one word to say of goodbye?
D
F#m
oh say you're not afraid
C#m
F#m
Of the promise that we made,
A
Bm
D
Oh why do the willows in the wind run shiver
C#m
F#m
E
C#m
Bm
s down my skin of sor row?
Verse 3
E
A
F#m
not blow upon my skin
Where the stars may not
C#m
A
G#m
shine upon my name
Bm
F#m
I shall soon enough return to
E
A
Em
F#m
where I long and I yearn
A
E
F#m
And I swear that I will be the same
Interlude 1
Bm
D
F#m
A
E
Bm
D
C#m
F#m
A
Bm
Verse 4
D
C#m
Do the leaves in the trees still whisper
Verse 5
to face the beast and
Em
F#m
to drivel at his feast
May the two of us nev
C#m
A
G#m
er be seen
Bm
F#m
And my love, may you sleep
E
Em
F#m
as the ocean fall deep
A
E
And I swear I won't tell
Em
F#m
you where I've been
Verse 6
D
F#m
and evening's drawing near
And still you are not here,
A
F#m
A
E
my love
D
C#m
but howls are all I hear
Bm
Verse 7
D
C#m
Yet that shadow in disguise who stares through werewolf's eyes,
Verse 8
E
Em
F#m
the changes that I've made
C#m
G#m
I have come now to bring you away
Bm
F#m
To our bed that I have made with
E
Em
F#m
the seven stones I've laid
A
E
Em
And covered in the finest of clay
F#m
Verse 9
Lay your head upon the ground,
E
Em
F#m
you shall never be found
C#m
G#m
I will guard against dangers that be
Bm
F#m
Until dawn comes around you
Em
F#m
must not make a sound
E
Em
F#m
be with me
E
Em
forever be with me
F#m
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