Wat Tyler chords by Fairport Convention

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Difficulty: Novice

Chorus:
  FF        C majorC
And on the field of Blackheath
  FF          C majorC
Us commons covered the earth
   G+G       C majorC
More men than ever I did see
   FF        G+G A augmentedA   BB
Poor honest men from birth

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

Instrumental:
G+G C majorC FF BB

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

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