The World Is Turned Upside Down chords by Maddy Prior

• Difficulty: Beginner

Verse 1:
C                G         C
Listen to me and you shall hear
    F                  G        C
New hath not been this thousand year
                        G    C
Since Herod, Caesar and many more
    F               G      C
You never heard the like before
G                      (C)
Holy-days are despis'd
G                       (C)
New fashions are devis'd
G                       Dm     G
Old Christmas is kicked out of Town
G

Yet let's be content and the times lament
G                        Dm     G
You see the world turned upside down


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


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