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Changeling Child chords by Heather Dale

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Throughout the flute intro - Chord diagramDmDm

Verse 1:
     Chord diagramDmDm                 Chord diagramBb majorBb
The wind blows low and mournful
               Chord diagramFF             Chord diagramG+G
Through the Strath of Dalnacreich
      Chord diagramDmDm                  Chord diagramBb majorBb
Where once there lived a woman
     Chord diagramFF              Chord diagramG+G
Who would a mother be
      Chord diagramDmDm                 Chord diagramBb majorBb
For twelve long years a good man's wife
      Chord diagramFF               Chord diagramG+G
but ne'er the cradle filled
   Chord diagramFF            Chord diagramBb majorBb                    Chord diagramG+G              Chord diagramDmDm
Chord diagramA augmentedA mother of a changeling child from 'neath the fairy hill

Chord diagramDmDm

Verse 2:
      Chord diagramDmDm              Chord diagramBb majorBb
She traveled to the standing stones
      Chord diagramFF                Chord diagramG+G
And crossed into the green
      Chord diagramDmDm              Chord diagramBb majorBb
Where all the host of elven folk
      Chord diagramFF               Chord diagramG+G
were dancing there unseen
   Chord diagramDmDm                  Chord diagramBb majorBb
Through the night she bargained
          Chord diagramFF               Chord diagramG+G
with the Queen of fairies all
     Chord diagramFF                Chord diagramBb majorBb             Chord diagramG+G                 Chord diagramDmDm
who sent her home at dawning with a babe beneath her shawl

Verse 3:
      Chord diagramDmDm            Chord diagramBb majorBb
How their home was joyful
        Chord diagramFF                Chord diagramG+G
with a son to call their own
     Chord diagramDmDm                Chord diagramBb majorBb
But soon they saw the years that passed
       Chord diagramFF               Chord diagramG+G
would never make him grow
     Chord diagramDmDm               Chord diagramBb majorBb
The fairies would not answer her
      Chord diagramFF                    Chord diagramG+G
The stones were dark and slept
   Chord diagramFF               Chord diagramBb majorBb                     Chord diagramG+G              Chord diagramDmDm
Chord diagramA augmentedA babe was all she asked for, and their promises they'd kept

Chord diagramDmDm

Verse 4:
     Chord diagramDmDm                 Chord diagramBb majorBb
The wind blows low and mournful
               Chord diagramFF             Chord diagramG+G
Through the Strath of Dalnacreich
      Chord diagramDmDm                  Chord diagramBb majorBb
Where once there lived a woman
     Chord diagramFF              Chord diagramG+G
Who would a mother be
     Chord diagramDmDm              Chord diagramBb majorBb
For fifty years she rocked that babe
      Chord diagramFF                   Chord diagramG+G
it's said she rocks him still
   Chord diagramFF            Chord diagramBb majorBb                   Chord diagramG+G          Chord diagramDmDm

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