Chords with lyrics
The chords are relative to capo 7th to make the guitar sound more like the mandolin its played on.
C majorC
FF
I was born with this story, it's older than I
FF
And yet you when you hear it you'll know in the sky
FF
In the wind of your knowledge, In the cut of your jib
FF
That the fibre of wind is as new from my lip
FF
As was ever and more and ever will be
FF
'til the union we face casts us finally free
C majorC
C majorC
For we in the love of an earth-bidden dance
C majorC
Stand enthralled of that, which from heaven, perchance
C majorC
Lets us move with the gifts we were given in grace
C majorC
And smile in the arms of Sweet William..mmmm's embrace
C majorC
William's wanderings took him abroad
Showed him the lay of the searcher's long road
To the place he stood now 'neath the black laden sky
And the crook of his father had brought fortune nigh
Read the sign where he looked, Not the bull, nor the bear
Nor a burly red lion, or the tortoise and hare
For we in the love of an earth-bidden dance
Stand enthralled of it, which from heaven, perchance
Lets us move with the gifts we were given in grace
And smile in the arms of Sweet William's embrace
FF
The end of the world was the name of the inn
FF
Said fair William farewell to the world and its sin
C majorC
Its sin
DmDm
Full balmy was the winter air
FF
All wet with what might die
DmDm
A augmentedA wishing well, the ocean bear
FF
A augmentedA millpond in his eyes
DmDm
A augmentedA glance to see from whence he came
FF
For William with a landlocked turn
DmDm
Vermin what he stood to lose
DmDm
The skin-shot snakes and earthy worms
His boots trod soft inside the inn
His greeted all was here
Abrasive lowly nods came back
Then bent toward their beer
They must know I thought Willy now
They've seen me come from miles
The thought was struck as whisky poured
And barmen gave all smiles
A minorAm
Then followed this a curious thing
C majorC
The eldest of the host
A minorAm
Sang softly where he sat and drank
C majorC
To love a worthy toast
A minorAm
His song was of a stranger
C majorC
Summoned for his rope
A minorAm
In all would be to set us free
C majorC
His song was strong and bold,
It went:
For we in the love of an earth-bidden dance
Stand enthralled of that, which from heaven, perchance
Lets us move with the gifts we were given in grace
And smile in the arms of Sweet William's embrace
I was born with this story, it's older than I
And yet you when you hear it you'll know in the sky
In the wind of your knowledge, In the cut of your jib
That the fibre of wind is as new from my lip
As was ever and more and ever will be
'til the union we face casts us finally free
Tabbed by Jon
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