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\