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