Banks Of The Nile chords by Sandy Denny

Chords with lyrics

BANKS OF THE NILE
Sandy Denny

DmDm G+G    C majorC    A minorAm       DmDm    C majorC   DmDm
Oh hark! the drums do beat, my love, no longer can we stay.
DmDm    G+G     C majorC    A minorAm     G+G       A minorAm
The bugle-horns are sounding clear, and we must march away.
DmDm      G+G    C majorC          A minorAm     G+G   A minorAm
We?re ordered down to Portsmouth, and it's many is the weary mile.
  DmDm    G+G    C majorC  A minorAm   DmDm  C majorC   DmDm
To join the British Army on the banks of the Nile.


DmDm G+G       C majorC  A minorAm    DmDm    C majorC    DmDm
Oh Willie, dearest Willie, don?t leave me here to mourn,
DmDm     G+G      C majorC    A minorAm    G+G     A minorAm
Don?t make me curse and rue the day that ever I was born.
DmDm   G+G    C majorC             A minorAm   G+G    A minorAm
For the parting of our love would be like parting with my life.
  DmDm   G+G    C majorC    A minorAm    DmDm   C majorC    DmDm
So stay at home, my dearest love, and I will be your wife.

DmDm  G+G   C majorC    A minorAm     DmDm    C majorC   DmDm
Oh my Nancy, dearest Nancy, sure that will never do.
DmDm    G+G    C majorC      A minorAm   G+G    A minorAm
The government has ordered, and we are bound to go.
DmDm    G+G    C majorC        A minorAm    G+G   A minorAm
The government has ordered, and the Queen she gives command.
  DmDm  G+G    C majorC    A minorAm    DmDm     C majorC    DmDm
And I am bound on oath, my love, to serve in a foreign land.


DmDm G+G    C majorC     A minorAm        DmDm   C majorC     DmDm
Oh, but I?ll cut off my yellow hair, and I?ll go along with you.
DmDm     G+G     C majorC      A minorAm    G+G   A minorAm
I?ll dress myself in uniform, and I?ll see Egypt too.
DmDm  G+G    C majorC     A minorAm      G+G       A minorAm
I?ll march beneath your banner while fortune it do smile,
  DmDm  G+G    C majorC  A minorAm       DmDm  C majorC   DmDm
And we?ll comfort one another on the banks of the Nile.


DmDm    G+G      C majorC  A minorAm        DmDm      C majorC    DmDm
But your waist it is too slender, and your fingers they are too small.
DmDm   G+G   C majorC    A minorAm     G+G         A minorAm
In the sultry suns of Egypt your rosy cheeks would spoil.
DmDm    G+G      C majorC A minorAm        G+G        A minorAm
Where the cannons they do rattle, when the bullets they do fly,
  DmDm     G+G    C majorC    A minorAm   DmDm    C majorC   DmDm
And the silver trumpets sound so loud to hide the dismal cries.


DmDm G+G   C majorC       A minorAm     DmDm  C majorC  DmDm
Oh, cursed be those cruel wars, that ever they began,
DmDm      G+G     C majorC     A minorAm    G+G    A minorAm
For they have robbed our country of manes the handsome men.
DmDm       G+G     C majorC   A minorAm        G+G          A minorAm
They?ve robbed us of our sweethearts while their bodies they feed the lions,
    DmDm   G+G   C majorC    A minorAm      DmDm  C majorC   DmDm
On the dry and sandy deserts which are the banks of the Nile.