The World Is Turned Upside Down chords by Maddy Prior

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Beginner

Verse 1:
C majorC        G+G     C majorC
Listen to me and you shall hear
  FF         G+G    C majorC
New hath not been this thousand year
            G+G  C majorC
Since Herod, Caesar and many more
  FF        G+G   C majorC
You never heard the like before
G+G           (C majorC)
Holy-days are despis'd
G+G            (C majorC)
New fashions are devis'd
G+G            DmDm   G+G
Old Christmas is kicked out of Town
G+G
Yet let's be content and the times lament
G+G            DmDm   G+G
You see the world turned upside down

Verse 2:
C majorC          G+G   C majorC
Command is giv'n, we must obey
  FF        G+G     C majorC
And quite forget Old Christmas Day;
             G+G   C majorC
Kill a thousand men, or a town regain
  FF          G+G    C majorC
We will give thanks and praise amain
G+G            (C majorC)
The wine pot shall clink
G+G            (C majorC)
We will feast and drink
G+G            DmDm  G+G
And then strange motions will abound
G+G
Yet let's be content and the times lament
G+G            DmDm   G+G
You see the world turned upside down


Verse 3:
C majorC             G+G   C majorC
Our Lords and Knights and Gentry too
  FF         G+G   C majorC
Do mean old fashions to forego:
         G+G   C majorC
They set a Porter at the gate
   FF        G+G    C majorC
That none must enter in thereat
G+G         (C majorC)
They count it a sin
G+G            (C majorC)
When poor people come in
G+G       DmDm   G+G
Hospitality itself is drowned
G+G
Yet let's be content and the times lament
G+G            DmDm   G+G
You see the world turned upside down