Chords with lyrics
Throughout the flute intro - DmDm
Verse 1:
DmDm Bb majorBb
The wind blows low and mournful
FF G+G
Through the Strath of Dalnacreich
DmDm Bb majorBb
Where once there lived a woman
FF G+G
Who would a mother be
DmDm Bb majorBb
For twelve long years a good man's wife
FF G+G
but ne'er the cradle filled
FF Bb majorBb G+G DmDm
A augmentedA mother of a changeling child from 'neath the fairy hill
DmDm
Verse 2:
DmDm Bb majorBb
She traveled to the standing stones
FF G+G
And crossed into the green
DmDm Bb majorBb
Where all the host of elven folk
FF G+G
were dancing there unseen
DmDm Bb majorBb
Through the night she bargained
FF G+G
with the Queen of fairies all
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who sent her home at dawning with a babe beneath her shawl
Verse 3:
DmDm Bb majorBb
How their home was joyful
FF G+G
with a son to call their own
DmDm Bb majorBb
But soon they saw the years that passed
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would never make him grow
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The fairies would not answer her
FF G+G
The stones were dark and slept
FF Bb majorBb G+G DmDm
A augmentedA babe was all she asked for, and their promises they'd kept
DmDm
Verse 4:
DmDm Bb majorBb
The wind blows low and mournful
FF G+G
Through the Strath of Dalnacreich
DmDm Bb majorBb
Where once there lived a woman
FF G+G
Who would a mother be
DmDm Bb majorBb
For fifty years she rocked that babe
FF G+G
it's said she rocks him still
FF Bb majorBb G+G DmDm