Annachie Gordon chords by Mary Black

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

CHORD KEY
D7sus4 = X00213
Am7 = X02010
G/B = X2003X
G/F# = XX4033
Em7 = 0X2030
Em7/D = 0X0030
Gadd9/F# = XX4035
C/E = XX2013
Cadd9 = X32030

Verse 1:
C    G7sus4 C               Dm7             C/E
Buchan  is   bonny and there lives my love

    F                C C/B      Am7 Am7/G   F
My heart it lies on him and will   not re-   move

   C             Cadd9/B    F/A      G7sus4   C
It will not re-move, oh for all that I have    done

Dm7 C/E   F               C   C/B   Am7   Am7/G   F    Fadd9
Oh    I       never will forget my      love   Ana-    chie

Verse 2:
C    G7sus4 C               Dm7             C/E
For Annachie Gordon, oh he's bonny and he's braw
    F                C C/B      Am7 Am7/G   F
He'd entice any woman that ever him saw
   C             Cadd9/B    F/A      G7sus4   C
He'd entice any woman and so he has done me
Dm7 C/E   F               C   C/B   Am7   Am7/G   F    Fadd9
Oh never will I forget my love Annachie

Verse 3:
C    G7sus4 C               Dm7             C/E
Down came her father, standing on the floor
    F                C C/B      Am7 Am7/G   F
Saying Jeanie you're trying the tricks of a whore
   C             Cadd9/B    F/A      G7sus4   C
You care nothing for a man who cares so very much for thee
Dm7 C/E   F               C   C/B   Am7   Am7/G   F    Fadd9
You must marry with Lord Salton and leave Young Annachie
C    G7sus4 C               Dm7             C/E
For Annachie Gordon he's only but a man
    F                C C/B      Am7 Am7/G   F
Although he may be pretty but where are all his lands
   C             Cadd9/B    F/A      G7sus4   C
Salton's lands are broad and his towers they stand high
Dm7 C/E   F               C   C/B   Am7   Am7/G   F    Fadd9
You must marry with Lord Salton and forget Young Annachie

Verse 4:
C    G7sus4 C               Dm7             C/E
With Annachie Gordon oh I'd beg for my bread
    F                C C/B      Am7 Am7/G   F
Before that I'd marry Salton with gold to my head
   C             Cadd9/B    F/A      G7sus4   C
With gold to my head and with gowns fringed to the knee
Dm7 C/E   F               C   C/B   Am7   Am7/G   F    Fadd9
Oh I'll die if I don't get my love Annachie
C    G7sus4 C               Dm7             C/E
And you that are my parents oh to church you may me bring
    F                C C/B      Am7 Am7/G   F
Ah but unto Lord Salton Oh I'll never bear a son
   C             Cadd9/B    F/A      G7sus4   C
A son or a daughter oh I'll never bow my knee
Dm7 C/E   F               C   C/B   Am7   Am7/G   F    Fadd9
Oh, I'll die if I don't get my love Annachie

Verse 5:
C    G7sus4 C               Dm7             C/E
When Jeanie was married and from church she was brought home
    F                C C/B      Am7 Am7/G   F
And she and her maidens so merry should have been
   C             Cadd9/B    F/A      G7sus4   C
When she and her maidens so merry should have been
Dm7 C/E   F               C   C/B   Am7   Am7/G   F    Fadd9
Oh she's gone to a chamber and she's crying all alone

Verse 6:
C    G7sus4 C               Dm7             C/E
Come to bed now Jeanie, oh my honey and my sweet
    F                C C/B      Am7 Am7/G   F
For to style you my mistress it would not be meet
   C             Cadd9/B    F/A      G7sus4   C
Oh it's mistress or Jeanie it's all the same to me
Dm7 C/E   F               C   C/B   Am7   Am7/G   F    Fadd9
For it's in your bed Lord Salton I never shall be
C    G7sus4 C               Dm7             C/E
And up and spoke her father and he's spoken with renown
    F                C C/B      Am7 Am7/G   F
All you who are her maidens won't you loosen off her gown
   C             Cadd9/B    F/A      G7sus4   C
But she fell down in a swoon, so low down by their knees
Dm7 C/E   F               C   C/B   Am7   Am7/G   F    Fadd9
Saying Look on for I'm dying for my love Annachie

Verse 7:
C    G7sus4 C               Dm7             C/E
The day that Jeanie married was the day that Jeanie died
    F                C C/B      Am7 Am7/G   F
That's the day that young Annachie come rolling from the tide
   C             Cadd9/B    F/A      G7sus4   C
And Down came her maidens and they're wringing of their hands
Dm7 C/E   F               C   C/B   Am7   Am7/G   F    Fadd9
Saying woe to you Annachie for staying from the sands
   C             Cadd9/B    F/A      G7sus4   C
So long from the land and so long upon the flood
Dm7 C/E   F               C   C/B   Am7   Am7/G   F    Fadd9
Oh they've married your Jeanie and now she is dead

Verse 8:
C    G7sus4 C               Dm7             C/E
All you that are her maidens won't you take me by the hand
    F                C C/B      Am7 Am7/G   F
Won't you lead me to the chamber that my love lies in
   C             Cadd9/B    F/A      G7sus4   C
And he's kissed her cold lips until his heart turned to stone
Dm7 C/E   F               C   C/B   Am7   Am7/G   F    Fadd9
And he's died in the chamber where his true love lay in