willy o winsbury chords by Pentangle
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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The
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King has been a prisoner,
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And a prisoner long in
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Spain,
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And
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Willie of the
Wensbury
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Em
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Has lain long with his daughter at home
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What tale is you, what tale is you,
my daughter
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Janet
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Why you look so pale and wan
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O have you had any soresickness,
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nor yet been sleeping with a man?
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I have not had any soresickness,
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nor yet been sleeping with a man.
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It is for you, my father dear,
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For biding so long in
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Spain.
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Cast off, cast off your berry
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-brown gown,
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You stand naked upon the stone,
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Bm
That I may know you by your shape
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If you be maiden or gnome
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And she's cast off her
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berry -brown gown
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She stood naked upon the stone
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Em
Her apron was low,
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and her haunches were round,
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Her face was pale and worn.
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Was it with a lord, or duke, or knight,
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Or a man of earth and fame?
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Em
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Or was it with one of my
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serving men
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That's lately come out of
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Spain?
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No, it wasn't with a lord,
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nor duke, or a knight,
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Nor a man of birth and fame,
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But it was with
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Willie of
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Wensbury I could bide
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no longer alone
And the
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Bm
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King has called on his merry men all
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By thirty and by three
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Em
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Says fetch me this willy of
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Wensbury,
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For haggard he shall be.
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But when he came the king before,
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he was clad all in the red silk.
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His hair was like the strands of gold.
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His skin was as white as the milk, and it is no wonder,
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said the king, that my daughter's
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love you did win.
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For if I was a woman as I am a man
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My bedfellow you would have been
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And will you marry my daughter
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Janet
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By the truth of your right hand?
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O will you marry my daughter
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Janet? I will make you lord of my land.
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O yes, I will marry your daughter,
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Janet, by the truth of my right hand.
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Em
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O yes, I will marry your daughter,
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Em
Janet, but I'll not be the
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C
lord of your land.
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And he's mounted her
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on a milk -white steed,
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And himself a dappled grey.
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He has made her the
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Lady of
Asmuch
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Land,
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As she shall ride in a long
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summer's day.
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willy o winsbury
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