Harp Song Of The Dane Women chords by Gordon Bok

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
F# minorF#m   C#7C#7 C#7/F#

Verse:

F# minorF#m          B minorBm
What is a woman, that you forsake her


A augmentedA       C# minorC#m D MajorD      E MajorE   F# minorF#m
And the hearthfire and the home-acre


        B minorBm  F# minorF#m    B minorBm    C#7C#7  F# minorF#m
To go with the old, grey widow-maker?

Verse:

          B minorBm       F# minorF#m
She has no house to lay a guest in


       D MajorD    B minorBm     F# minorF#m
But one chill bed for all to rest in


     B minorBm        C#7C#7        F# minorF#m
That the pale suns and the stray 'bergs rest in


Verse:

            B minorBm      F# minorF#m
She has no strong white arms to fold you


         D MajorD     B minorBm      F# minorF#m
But the ten-times-fingering weed to hold you


B minorBm             C#7C#7       F# minorF#m  B minorBm  C#7C#7  F# minorF#m
Down in the dark where the tide has rolled you


Verse:

       C# minorC#m   D MajorD
Yet when the signs of summer quicken

    E MajorE          B minorBm
And the ice breaks, and the birch-buds thicken


A augmentedA     B minorBm      C#7C#7   F# minorF#m
Yearly you turn from our side and sicken


Verse:

    C# minorC#m     D MajorD
Sicken again for the blood and the slaughters


  E MajorE         B minorBm   F# minorF#m
You steal away to the lapping waters


  B minorBm          C#7C#7    F# minorF#m    B minorBm  C#7C#7  F# minorF#m
And look to your ship in her winter quarters


Verse:

             B minorBm
You forget our mirth, our talk at the tables


  F# minorF#m     D MajorD      E MajorE      F# minorF#m
The kine in the shed and the horse in the stables


B minorBm            C#7C#7   F# minorF#m    B minorBm  C#7C#7 F# minorF#m
To pitch her sides and go over the cables


Verse:

       C# minorC#m      D MajorD
Then you ride out where the storm clouds swallow


  E MajorE            B minorBm    F# minorF#m
The sound of your oar-blades, falling hollow


        B minorBm      C#7C#7    F# minorF#m   B minorBm  C#7C#7
Is all we have left for the months to follow


Verse:

  F# minorF#m         B minorBm
Ah, what is woman, that you forsake her


A augmentedA       C# minorC#m D MajorD      E MajorE   F# minorF#m
And the hearthfire and the home-acre


        B minorBm  F# minorF#m    B minorBm
To go with the old, grey widow-maker?