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