Willie Of Winsbury chords by Anais Mitchell

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Verse:
A                 B11/A
The king has been a prisoner
      A        B11/A   A
And a prisoner long in Spain
    C#m    A      E         G#m
And Willie of the Winsbury
     A                 E            A
Has lain long with his daughter Jane
 A                                           B11/A
"What ails you, what ails you, my daughter Jane?
          A       B11/A    A
Why, you look so pale and wan
     C#m      A      E            G#m
Oh, have you had any ill sickness
     A         E            A
Or yet been sleeping with a man?"
    A                B11/A
"I have not had any ill sickness
    A         B11/A          A
Nor yet been sleeping with a man
 C#m        A       E         G#m
It is for you my father dear
     A        E         A
For biding so long in Spain"
      A                      B11/A
"Cast off, cast off your robe and gown
       A    B11/A  A
Stand naked on the stone
      C#m     A        E             G#m
That I might know you by your shape
     A      E         A
If you be maiden or none"
      A                   B11/A
And she's cast off her robe and gown
  A          B11/A    A
Stood naked on a stone
     C#m        A         E                 G#m
Her apron was tight and her waist was round
     A         E         A
Her face was pale and wan

Verse:
      A                       B11/A
"And was it with a lord or a gentleman
       A       B11/A      A
Or a man of wealth and fame?
     C#m        A          E         G#m
Or was it with one of my servingmen
     A          E            A
While I was a prisoner in Spain?"
     A                          B11/A
"No, it wasn't with a lord or a gentlemen
      A       B11/A      A
Or a man of wealth and fame
  C#m         A         E      G#m
It was with Willie of Winsbury
          A       E      A
I could bide no longer alone"
         A                  B11/A
And the king has called his servingmen
    A      B11/A    A
By one, by two, by three
        C#m             A        E          G#m
Saying "Where is this Willie of Winsbury?
      A        E      A
For hanged he shall be"
     A                 B11/A
And when they came before the king
   A      B11/A         A
By one, by two, and by three
 C#m                A        E             G#m
Willie should have been the first of them
        A        E        A
But the last of them was he
    A               B11/A
And Willie of the Winsbury
     A      B11/A       A
All dressed up in red silk
    C#m        A        E             G#m
His hair hung like the strands of gold
     A          E       A
His breast was white as milk
   A                       B11/A
"No wonder, no wonder", the king he said
   A                B11/A         A
"That my daughter's love you did win
    C#m       A       E         G#m
If I were a woman as I am a man
       A       E               A
In my own bed you would have been -

Verse:
    A                   B11/A
And will you marry my daughter Jane
       A         B11/A      A
By the faith of your right hand?
          C#m           A          E         G#m
And I'll make you the lord of my servingmen
      A            E          A
I'll make you the heir to my land"
    A                      B11/A
"Oh yes, I'll marry your daughter Jane
      A          B11/A   A
By the faith of my right hand
         C#m         A       E       G#m
But I'll not be the lord of any man
         A          E            A
I'll be not be the heir to your land"
           A                    B11/A
And he's raised her up on a milk white steed
    A             B11/A     A
And himself on a dapple gray
 C#m                A          E          G#m
He has made her the lady of as much land
            A           E           A
As she can ride on a long summer's day