Three Little Babes chords by Joanna Newsom

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

(N.C. means no strumming)

Verse 1:
N.C.    DmDm
There was a knight, and a lady bright
  FF           DmDm
And three little babes had she

She sent them away, to a far country
 G minorGm   A augmentedA    DmDm
To learn their grammerie

Verse 2:
N.C.       DmDm
They hadn't been gone but a very short time
 FF            DmDm
About three months and a day

When the lark spread o'er this whole wide world
  G minorGm   A augmentedA     DmDm
And taken those babes away

Verse 3:
N.C.    DmDm
It was on a cold, cold Christmas night
   FF      DmDm
When everything was still

And she saw her three little babes come running
  G minorGm  A augmentedA      DmDm
Come running down the hill

Verse 4:
N.C.      DmDm
She set them a table of bread and wine
   FF          DmDm
That they might drink and eat;

She spread them a bed of winding sheet
  G minorGm   A augmentedA      DmDm
That they might sleep so sweet

Verse 5:
N.C.         DmDm
"Take it off, take it off," cried the eldest one;
     FF            DmDm
"Take it off, take it off," cried she

"For I shan't stay here, in this wicked world
   G minorGm      A augmentedA     DmDm
When there's a better one for me."

Verse 6:
N.C.       DmDm
"Cold clods, cold clods, inside my bed
  FF         DmDm
Cold clods, down at my feet

The tears my dear mother shed for me
 G minorGm  A augmentedA     DmDm
Would wet my winding sheet."

Outro:
"The tears my dear mother shed for me
 G minorGm  A augmentedA     DmDm
Would wet my winding sheet.
 G minorGm  A augmentedA     DmDm
Would wet my winding sheet."