Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)
🎸 Intro:
G# minorG#m
🎸 Verse:
I will dress your eyelids
With dimes upon your eyes
Lay you close to water
Green your grave will rise
🎸 Chorus:
F#F#
Go to sleep little ugly
G# minorG#m
Go to sleep you little fool
F#F#
Forty-winking in the belfry
E MajorE F#F#
You'll not feel the drowning
E MajorE F#F# G+G G# minorG#m
You'll not feel the drowning
🎸 Verse 2:
Forget you once had sweethearts
They've forgotten you
Think you not on parents
They've forgotten too
🎸 Chorus 2:
F#F#
Go to sleep now little ugly
G# minorG#m
Go to sleep now you little fool
F#F#
Forty-winking in the belfry
E MajorE F#F#
You'll not feel the drowning
E MajorE F#F# G+G G# minorG#m
You'll not feel the drowning
🎸 Interlude:
G# minorG#m
🎸 Chorus 3:
F#F#
Go to sleep now little ugly
G# minorG#m
Go to sleep now you little fool
F#F#
Forty-winking in the belfry
E MajorE F#F#
You'll not feel the drowning
E MajorE F#F# G+G G# minorG#m
You'll not feel the drowning
🎸 Verse 3:
Hear you now the captain
Heed his sorrowed cry
"Weight upon your eyelids
BB
As dimes laid on your eyes"