The Wife Of Ushers Well chords by Alasdair Roberts

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
C majorC

Verse:
              A minorAm  G/BG/B C majorC
There was a lady and a lady gay
          FF C majorC G+G
Of children she had three___
  C majorC                A minorAm  G/BG/B FF
She sent them away to the North Country
    C majorC  FF   G+G    C majorC
For to learn their grammarie

Verse:
                A minorAm  G/BG/B C majorC
They had not been gone so very long
            FF C majorC G+G
Scarce six months and a day____
   C majorC                A minorAm  G/BG/B FF
'Till death, cold death, came hasting along
  C majorC  FF   G+G       C majorC
And stole these three babes away

Verse:
                A minorAm  G/BG/B C majorC
It was all about the Christmas time
             FF C majorC G+G
The night being cold and clear___
  C majorC              A minorAm  G/BG/B FF
She looked and saw those three babes
 C majorC   FF G+G    C majorC
A-coming  home to her

Verse:
               A minorAm  G/BG/B C majorC
She made a table all long and wide
            FF C majorC G+G
On it she put bread and wine___
   C majorC                A minorAm  G/BG/B FF
"Come eat, come drink, my three little babes
   C majorC  FF   G+G    C majorC
Come eat, come drink my wine"

Verse:
                A minorAm   G/BG/B C majorC
"Oh, we want none, none of your bread
            FF C majorC G+G
Neither do we want your wine___
  C majorC            A minorAm  G/BG/B FF
For yonder comes our saviour dear
     C majorC FF  G+G   C majorC
And with him we must resign

Verse:
                A minorAm   G/BG/B C majorC
"Green grass grows over our rosy heads
              FF C majorC G+G
Cold clay lies beneath our feet___
  C majorC              A minorAm G/BG/B FF
And every tear that you shed for us
     C majorC  FF  G+G    C majorC
Well, it wets our winding sheet"