The Ballad Of The Three Kings chords by Leslie Fish

• Capo on 3rd
• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

Verse 1:
      Em                    Am      Em
Three kings rode out on the road to hell
    Em                 Am
And ravens rode on the gale
    Em                      Am
The night wind rang like an iron bell
    Em          B         Em
And hissed with sleet and hail
      Am                       Em
Three kings rode out where the night wind runs
Am                 B
Out onto death's highway
    Em                       Am          Em                B  Em
The king of the Britons, the king of the Huns, the king of Norway

Verse 2:

    Em                      Am           Em                       Am
The king of the Britons was crowned with gold and rode a stallion white
        Em               Am                 Em   B      Em
Saying, "All men go when they are told, but I go not in fright
  Am             Em                 Am                    B
A godly king who loved his folk and guarded them with his rod
    Em               Am      Em                      B     Em
And fire and gallows against themselves, will surely go to God"


Verse 3:

    Em                   Am           Em                        Am
The king of the Huns was crowned with steel and rode a stallion red
         Em                     Am             Em     B          Em
Saying, "Proud must my father's spirit feel of me who crowned my head
Am               Em             Am                   B
Halfway across a world in pain, which mightily I did win
   Em                  Am       Em                   B    Em
So now I go home to my father's fane, and not to the evil Djinn"


Verse 4:

    Em                 Am           Em                        Am
The king of Norway was crowned with wings and rode a stallion gray
        Em                Am                  Em          B  Em
Saying, "High and lustily my heart sings, for Odin guests me today
  Am           Em                   Am               B
I died in bed, aye, but I hung full many a screaming thrall
   Em                Am       Em                  B      Em
On Odin's tree, with runes on tongue, so now I go to his hall"


Verse 5:

      Em                    Am      Em
Three kings rode out on the road to hell
        Em              Am
And the bloody-breasted hound
Em                        Am
Bayed where the darkening waters fell
Em  B           Em
Icy beneath the ground
      Am            Em
Three kings a final judgment won
         Am                   B
From the High Gods' lips that day
    Em             Am
The Devil took the Briton
    Em             Am
The Djinn took the Hun
    Em        B  Em
And Hela took Norway