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