Willie Of Winsbury chords by Katy J Pearson

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Beginner

Verse:
G+G              D MajorD
The king he has been a poor prisoner
E minorEm         C majorC
And a prisoner long in Spain
G+G          B minorBm
While Willie o' Winsbury
E minorEm               C majorC
Has lain long with his daughter at home

G+G                  D MajorD
"What ails you, what ails you, my daughter dear
E minorEm            C majorC
Why you look so pale and wan?
G+G             B minorBm
Oh, have you had any sore sickness
E minorEm            C majorC
Or yet been sleeping wi' a man "

G+G            D MajorD
"I have not had any sore sickness
E minorEm            C majorC
Nor yet been sleeping wi' a man
G+G             B minorBm
Twas grieving for you, my father dear
E minorEm            C majorC
After biding so long in Spain "

G+G                D MajorD
"Well cast off, cast off your berry-brown gown
E minorEm         C majorC
Stand naked upon a stone
G+G              B minorBm
That I may know you by your shape
E minorEm            C majorC
Whether you be a maiden or nae "

G+G                  D MajorD
And she's cast off her berry-brown gown
E minorEm          C majorC
Stood naked upon a stone
G+G                      B minorBm
Her haunches were round and her apron was short
E minorEm            C majorC
Her face it was pale and wan

G+G                 D MajorD
"Oh, is he a lord or a duke or a knight
E minorEm           C majorC
Or a man of birth and fame
G+G             B minorBm
Or is he one of my serving men
E minorEm              C majorC
That's lately come out of Spain "

G+G                     D MajorD
Well the king has called on his merry men all
E minorEm             C majorC
His merry men thirty and three
G+G                 B minorBm
Saying, "Bring me Willie o' Winsbury
E minorEm          C majorC
For hanged he shall be "

G+G              D MajorD
But when he came the king before
E minorEm              C majorC
He was clad all in the red silk
G+G                 B minorBm
His hair it was like the strands of gold
E minorEm             C majorC
His skin it was white as milk

G+G         D MajorD
oooooooooooooooooooh
E minorEm         C majorC
oooooooooooooooooooh
G+G         B minorBm
oooooooooooooooooooh
E minorEm         C majorC
oooooooooooooooooooh

G+G                  D MajorD
"Well, it is nae wonder," says the king
E minorEm              C majorC
"that my daughter's love you did win
G+G         B minorBm
For if I were a woman
E minorEm               C majorC
My bedfellow you would have been "
G+G               D MajorD
"And will you marry my daughter
E minorEm              C majorC
By the truth of your right hand?
G+G             B minorBm
And I will marry your daughter
E minorEm              C majorC
But I won't be a lord of the land "
G+G                   D MajorD
So he's mounted her on a milk-white steed
E minorEm            C majorC
And himself on a dapple grey
G+G                  B minorBm
And he's made her a lady of as much land
E minorEm                  C majorC
As they could ride in a long summer's day