The Whole House Is Singing chords by Alasdair Roberts

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
G+G D MajorD C majorC D MajorD x4

Verse:
   G+G      D MajorD       C majorC        D MajorD
Oh, I know she rose early, for I heard her sweet singing
G+G    D MajorD    C majorC     D MajorD
Echoing over the flowering heath
  G+G      D MajorD      C majorC     D MajorD
She gathered the willow, the elder, the linden
  G+G     D MajorD     C majorC D MajorD  G+G
The holly, the ivy twined into a wreath

Instrumental:
G+G D MajorD C majorC D MajorD x2

Verse:
    G+G       D MajorD     C majorC     D MajorD
Oh, the notes you are forming, I long to possess them
   G+G       D MajorD      C majorC      D MajorD
They leap from your tongue and ascend on the breeze
  G+G    D MajorD     C majorC     D MajorD
Had I risen early from bed in the morning
   G+G      D MajorD      C majorC  D MajorD   G+G
Then I would have hold of the notes you release

Instrumental:
G+G D MajorD C majorC D MajorD

Verse:
    G+G      D MajorD       C majorC      D MajorD
And she gave me the wreath and she sang like a starling
  G+G     D MajorD       C majorC    D MajorD
My fingers entwined in her feathery hair
    G+G      D MajorD       C majorC     D MajorD
But she shrugged me away and said, "Alasdair, darling
    G+G       D MajorD     C majorC   D MajorD   G+G
When a song's on the wind it belongs to the air"

Instrumental:
G+G D MajorD C majorC D MajorD x2

Verse:
  G+G     D MajorD      C majorC      D MajorD
See Polly, she sings as she sits at the spinning wheel
G+G     D MajorD      C majorC       D MajorD
Mary, she sings as she skips with her rope
  G+G     D MajorD      C majorC      D MajorD
And Johnny, he sings as he fetches the herring creel
  G+G     D MajorD      C majorC   D MajorD    G+G
And Billy, he sings as he rolls down the slope

Verse:
    G+G       D MajorD      C majorC       D MajorD
And the whole house is singing, the whole house is singing
  G+G      D MajorD        C majorC      D MajorD
The rafters are ringing, and the timbers are thrown
  G+G       D MajorD      C majorC       D MajorD
The whole house is singing, the whole house is singing
  G+G   D MajorD       C majorC  D MajorD     G+G
And I overhear them, and this is their song

Interlude:
D MajorD  G+G  C majorC D MajorD  G+G  C majorC D MajorD
    G+G             C majorC    D MajorD
Hmm hmm hmm, hmm hmm hmm hmm, hmm hmm hmm hmm
    G+G             C majorC    D MajorD
Hmm hmm hmm, hmm hmm hmm hmm, hmm hmm hmm hmm

Verse:
    G+G              C majorC    D MajorD
We are stronger when the moon glows in the sky
    G+G           C majorC     D MajorD
And the moon causes the tide to rise and rise
    G+G          C majorC    D MajorD
And the weed carried upon the drawing foam
    G+G          C majorC   D MajorD
We will gather to bedeck our happy home

Outro:
    G+G             C majorC    D MajorD
Hmm hmm hmm, hmm hmm hmm hmm, hmm hmm hmm hmm
    G+G             C majorC    D MajorD
Hmm hmm hmm, hmm hmm hmm hmm, hmm hmm hmm hmm