Key: B minor
Verse 1
C
Em
In its bright and silky dress
G
D
Why do I feel depressed, my love?
When the curtains wave
C
Em
Across your white and milky breast
Bm
Em
G
Am
Why do I feel unrest, my love?
Bm
C
Am
Prepare in me this fright of our parting?
Then at the break of day, my love,
Dm
C
Em
where have you gone away?
G
D
But not one word to say of goodbye
Why would you not have stayed,
C
Em
Oh, say you're not afraid
Bm
Em
Of the promise that we made
G
Am
Oh, why
Bm
Em
Run shivers down my
D
Bm
Am
skin of sor row
D
G
May not blow upon my skin
Bm
G
F#m
shine upon my name
Am
Em
I shall soon enough return
D
G
Dm
Em
To where I long and I yearn
G
D
Em
Am
C
And I swear that I will be the same
Em
G
D
Am
C
Bm
Em
G
Am
Bm
Am
still whisper in the breeze, where are you?
Dm
Em
and to drivel at his feast
May the two of us nev
Bm
G
F#m
er be seen
Am
Em
And my love, may you sleep
D
Dm
Em
as the ocean fall deep
G
D
Dm
Em
And I swear I won't tell till I leave
C
Em
and evening's drawing near
G
Em
G
D
And still you are not here, my love
C
Bm
but how's it all I hear?
Em
G
Am
They are not yours, my dear, my love.
F
Em
You must not be afraid
D
Dm
Em
of the changes that I've made
Bm
F#m
I have come now to bring you away
Am
Em
To our bed that I have made
D
Dm
Em
with the seven stones I've laid
G
D
Dm
Em
Uncovered in the finest of clay
Lay your head upon the ground,
D
Dm
Em
you shall never be found
Bm
F#m
I will guard against dangers that be
Am
Em
Until dawn comes around,
Dm
Em
you must not make a sound
G
D
Dm
Em
And I swear you will forever be with me
G
D
Dm
And I swear you will forever be with me
Em
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