Willie Of Winsbury chords by Katy J Pearson

• Difficulty: Beginner

Verse:
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The king he has been a poor prisoner
Em                  C
And a prisoner long in Spain
G                   Bm
While Willie o' Winsbury
Em                             C
Has lain long with his daughter at home

G                                    D
"What ails you, what ails you, my daughter dear
Em                       C
Why you look so pale and wan?
G                         Bm
Oh, have you had any sore sickness
Em                       C
Or yet been sleeping wi' a man "

G                        D
"I have not had any sore sickness
Em                        C
Nor yet been sleeping wi' a man
G                          Bm
Twas grieving for you, my father dear
Em                        C
After biding so long in Spain "

G                               D
"Well cast off, cast off your berry-brown gown
Em                  C
Stand naked upon a stone
G                           Bm
That I may know you by your shape
Em                        C
Whether you be a maiden or nae "

G                                   D
And she's cast off her berry-brown gown
Em                   C
Stood naked upon a stone
G                                           Bm
Her haunches were round and her apron was short
Em                        C
Her face it was pale and wan

G                                  D
"Oh, is he a lord or a duke or a knight
Em                      C
Or a man of birth and fame
G                          Bm
Or is he one of my serving men
Em                            C
That's lately come out of Spain "

G                                          D
Well the king has called on his merry men all
Em                          C
His merry men thirty and three
G                                 Bm
Saying, "Bring me Willie o' Winsbury
Em                    C
For hanged he shall be "

G                            D
But when he came the king before
Em                           C
He was clad all in the red silk
G                                  Bm
His hair it was like the strands of gold
Em                         C
His skin it was white as milk

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