The Maiden In Birds Plumage chords by Gordon Bok

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
DmDm A minorAm

Verse:

DmDm      A minorAm
It was Nilus Erlandson


   DmDm        G minorGm
Rode forth the deer to take


       DmDm   Bb majorBb     A minorAm
And there he saw the lily-white hind

   DmDm     A minorAm    DmDm   A minorAm
That ran through bush and brake


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  DmDm        A minorAm
He chased her, Nilus Erlandson


   DmDm        G minorGm
That longed for her so sore


       DmDm    Bb majorBb    A minorAm
But swift was she, and still did flee


  DmDm          G minorGm
For three days' space and more, more


  DmDm          A minorAm  DmDm
For three days' space and more


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           A minorAm
Now snares he set on every path


  DmDm         G minorGm
Where'er a beast might go

      DmDm      Bb majorBb     A minorAm
But all so wise was the lily-white hind


   DmDm      A minorAm    DmDm  A minorAm
That he could not take her so


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  DmDm    A minorAm
Sir Nilus all through the greenwood


DmDm        G minorGm
Rode and rode in vain


         DmDm  Bb majorBb   A minorAm
His hounds loosed he by two, by three


  DmDm       G minorGm
To run her down a-main, main


  DmDm       A minorAm  DmDm
To run her down a-main


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          A minorAm
Now can she spy no way to fly


  DmDm        G minorGm
So hot the hounds pursue


       DmDm      Bb majorBb   A minorAm
Her shape she changed to a falcon fierce


   DmDm     A minorAm   DmDm   A minorAm
And aloft in the air she flew


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  DmDm           A minorAm
Her shape she changed to a falcon fleet


  DmDm         G minorGm
And perched on a linden green


       DmDm     Bb majorBb  A minorAm
And under the boughs Sir Nilus stood


  DmDm         G minorGm
And sighed for toil and tane, tane


  DmDm         A minorAm
And sighed for toil and tane


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  DmDm         A minorAm
Sir Nilus has taken his axe in his hand


  DmDm       G minorGm
To fell the linden tree


   DmDm     Bb majorBb      A minorAm
When forth there sprang a forester


   DmDm    A minorAm   DmDm   A minorAm
That smote the haft in three


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   DmDm        A minorAm
"Oh, would you take my father's wood


  DmDm      G minorGm
And all to do me wrong


       DmDm     Bb majorBb  A minorAm
For I promise thee, Nilus Erlandson


   DmDm        G minorGm
That thou shalt rue it long, long!


   DmDm        A minorAm
That thou shalt rue it long!"


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   DmDm        A minorAm
"Oh, let me take this single tree


   DmDm      G minorGm
This tree alone of thine


       DmDm    Bb majorBb   A minorAm
For but I can take the falcon fell


 DmDm   A minorAm    DmDm   A minorAm
I die of toil and pain!"


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   DmDm         A minorAm
"Oh, hark and heed, thou fair young knight


   DmDm       G minorGm
This counsel that I bring


         DmDm    Bb majorBb    A minorAm
Ne'er shalt thou take her till she taste


  DmDm        G minorGm
The blood of a tamed thing, thing!


  DmDm        A minorAm   DmDm
The blood of a tamed thing!"


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            A minorAm
A augmentedA gobbet he cut of his bleeding breast


   DmDm       G minorGm
Right bitter pain he knew


        DmDm    Bb majorBb    A minorAm
She flapped her wings and down she fell


  DmDm   A minorAm    DmDm  A minorAm
And on the bait she flew


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  DmDm          A minorAm
She flapped her wings and down she flew


  DmDm       G minorGm
And on the bait she fell


          DmDm      Bb majorBb   A minorAm
And she changed her shape to the fairest maid


   DmDm        G minorGm
That ever a tongue can tell, tell


   DmDm        A minorAm   DmDm
That ever a tongue can tell


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            A minorAm
She stood in a sark of silk so red


     DmDm       G minorGm
Where the linden tree did grow


          DmDm  Bb majorBb  A minorAm
And in the arms of Nilus Erlandson


  DmDm    A minorAm   DmDm  A minorAm
She told her word of woe


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  DmDm        A minorAm
"I sat and broidered lily and rose


  DmDm        G minorGm
My father's board beside


       DmDm   Bb majorBb    A minorAm
When in there came my dear stepdame


   DmDm        G minorGm
Whose wrath was ill to bide, bide


   DmDm        A minorAm
Whose wrath was ill to bide"


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  DmDm            A minorAm
"My shape she changed to the lily-white hind


  DmDm        G minorGm
To run in wild greenwood


       DmDm     Bb majorBb     A minorAm
And my seven maidens to seven grey wolves


  DmDm    A minorAm    DmDm   A minorAm
And bade them drink my blood"


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  DmDm           A minorAm
The damsel stood 'neath the linden tree


  DmDm        G minorGm
And loosed her golden hair


        DmDm     Bb majorBb    A minorAm
And then there came, what erst were wolves


  DmDm        G minorGm
But now were maidens fair, fair


  DmDm        A minorAm  DmDm
But now were maidens fair


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              A minorAm
"Oh, thanks to thee, Nilus Erlandson!


   DmDm           G minorGm
Hast saved me from hurt and harm


   DmDm     Bb majorBb    A minorAm
Never shalt thou seek thy slumber


  DmDm  A minorAm     DmDm  A minorAm
But on my lily-white arm"


Verse:

   DmDm          A minorAm
"Oh, thanks to thee, Nilus Erlandson


   DmDm        G minorGm
Hast set my sorrow to rest!


   DmDm     Bb majorBb    A minorAm
Never shalt thou seek thy slumber


  DmDm        G minorGm
But on my lily-white breast, breast


  DmDm        A minorAm
But on my lily-white breast"