Wat Tyler chords by Fairport Convention

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Difficulty: Novice

Chorus:
  F        C
And on the field of Blackheath
  F          C
Us commons covered the earth
   G       C
More men than ever I did see
   F        G A   B
Poor honest men from birth

Verse:
A        E    A      E
Men came up from Kent and out of Essex too
B                   A        B
Naught but the Thames divides us and unites us onwards through
    A      E    A      E
All the villages of England, on to London town
   B                 A         B
Where we poor men would see our king and lay our grievance down
  A      E          A         E
Wat Tyler led us men from Kent, rough hands were shaken there
   B              A        B
King Richard and the commons, our bold resolve and prayer

Instrumental:
G C F B

Verse:
  A          E      A      E
We knew our king would hear us, our loyalty was clear
  B               A          B
The bloody lawyers' poll tax had a-brought us labourers here
  A        E       A       E
And yet he wouldn't see us, so to London we did roar
    B                  A        B
And the poor there and the Essex men, burst down the prison door

Verse:
   A        E     A         E
What happened at the Tower was justice, rough in part
  B                 A      B
The murders of the Flemish boys, sat uneasy in my heart
 A         E       A      E
"Now the king must see us\