Three Drunken Maidens chords by Fairport Convention

Chords with lyrics

Verse:

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There were three drunken maidens, lived on the Isle of Wight


            C majorC        G+G     D MajorD    G+G
They drank from Monday morning, didn't stop till Saturday night


   A minorAm                   G+G          D MajorD
When Saturday night came round, me boys, the girlies wouldn't go out


G+G          C majorC B minorBm    G+G      D MajorD  G+G
These three drunken maidens kept pushing the jug about

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Then in comes bouncing Sally with a face as red as a bloom


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"Move up, me jolly sisters, and give your Sally some room


  A minorAm          G+G         D MajorD
For I'll be your equal before the night is out"


  G+G        C majorC B minorBm     G+G     D MajorD  G+G
So now four drunken maidens, they pushed the jug about


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            C majorC     G+G  D MajorD     G+G
There was woodcock and pheasant, partridge and hare


         C majorC        G+G   D MajorD   G+G
And every kind of pie, me boys, no scarcity was there


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They'd forty quarts of beer all told, they fairly drunk it up


G+G         C majorC B minorBm    G+G     D MajorD  G+G
These four drunken maidens who pushed the jug about

Instrumental:
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A majorA  D MajorD A augmentedA  E MajorE A augmentedA
B minorBm  A augmentedA E MajorE
A augmentedA D MajorD C# minorC#m A augmentedA E MajorE A augmentedA

Verse:

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Then in comes the landlord and he's looking for his pay


            C majorC        G+G    D MajorD   G+G
"I've a bill for forty knicker that you lot have got to pay"


   A minorAm            G+G           D MajorD
They hadn't got the money and still they wouldn't go out


G+G         C majorC B minorBm    G+G      D MajorD  G+G
These four drunken maidens kept pushing the jug about


Verse:

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Now where are your feathered hats, your mantles crisp and fine?


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"They've all been swallowed up, me boys, in tankards of good wine"


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And where are your maidenheads, you maids so brisk and gay?


  G+G        C majorC   B minorBm    G+G     D MajorD   G+G
"We left them in the public house, we drank them clean away"


Outro:
G+G  C majorC G+G  D MajorD G+G
G MajorG  C majorC G+G  D MajorD G+G
A minorAm  G+G D MajorD
G+G C majorC B minorBm G+G D MajorD G+G