Harp Of Death chords by Omnia

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Beginner

N.C.
Once upon a time

🎸 Verse 1:
       DmDm          C majorC
There lived a lady on the North Sea shore
    FF         DmDm
Lay te bent to the bonnie broom
      DmDm         A minorAm
She had two daughters that she adored
Bb majorBb          C majorC  DmDm
Fa la la la la la-la laa la la

🎸 Verse 2:
       DmDm            C majorC
The youngest daughter born to sweet delight
    FF          DmDm
Lay te bent to the bonnie broom
      DmDm             A minorAm
The eldest daughter born to greed and spite
Bb majorBb          C majorC  DmDm
Fa la la la la la-la laa la la

🎸 Verse 3:
       DmDm           C majorC
A augmentedA knight came for the fairest in the land
    FF          DmDm
Lay te bent to the bonnie broom
    DmDm            A minorAm
He was promised the young girl's hand
Bb majorBb          C majorC   DmDm
Fa la la la la la-la laa la la

🎸 Verse 4:
     DmDm         C majorC
Grimmest envy in the elder grew
    FF          DmDm
Lay te bent to the bonnie broom
        DmDm            A minorAm
She planned to steal her sister's lover true
Bb majorBb          C majorC   DmDm
Fa la la la la la-la laa la la

🎸 Verse 5:
      DmDm             C majorC
"Oh darling sister won't you come with me"
    FF          DmDm
Lay te bent to the bonnie broom
       DmDm          A minorAm
"To watch the swans swimming in the sea "
Bb majorBb          C majorC   DmDm
Fa la la la la la-la laa la la

🎸 Verse 6:
    DmDm            C majorC
On the rocks were the mermaids sing
    FF          DmDm
Lay te bent to the bonnie broom
     DmDm             A minorAm
The elder sister pushed the younger in
Bb majorBb          C majorC   DmDm
Fa la la la la la-la laa la la

🎸 Verse 7:
     DmDm           C majorC
"Oh cruel sister, please let me live"
    FF          DmDm
Lay te bent to the bonnie broom
        DmDm        A minorAm
"And all that's mine to you I'll give"
Bb majorBb          C majorC  DmDm
Fa la la la la la-la laa la la

🎸 Verse 8:
        DmDm           C majorC
"I'll take your true love and I'll take more"
    FF          DmDm
Lay te bent to the bonnie broom
      DmDm         A minorAm
"For I will never let you come ashore"
Bb majorBb          C majorC   DmDm
Fa la la la la la-la laa la la

🎸 Verse 9:
       DmDm              C majorC
The fair girl drowned beneath the North Sea foam
    FF          DmDm
Lay te bent to the bonnie broom
      DmDm          A minorAm
Her broken body washed upon the stones
Bb majorBb          C majorC   DmDm
Fa la la la la la-la laa la la

🎸 Verse 10:
       DmDm             C majorC
Three witches found her in the dead of night
    FF          DmDm
Lay te bent to the bonnie broom
      DmDm            A minorAm
And wove a spell to put her soul to right
Bb majorBb          C majorC   DmDm
Fa la la la la la-la laa la la

🎸 Verse 11:
      DmDm             C majorC
They made a harp out of her skin and bone
    FF          DmDm
Lay te bent to the bonnie broom
      DmDm             A minorAm
The tuning pegs made from her finger bones
Bb majorBb          C majorC   DmDm
Fa la la la la la-la laa la la

🎸 Verse 12:
        DmDm          C majorC
They took nine locks of her golden hair
    FF          DmDm
Lay te bent to the bonnie broom
       DmDm         A minorAm
And with them strung the harp so rare
Bb majorBb          C majorC   DmDm
Fa la la la la la-la laa la la

🎸 Verse 13:
       DmDm             C majorC
The took the harp on to her mother's hall
    FF          DmDm
Lay te bent to the bonnie broom
      DmDm            A minorAm
And set it down to play bevore them all
Bb majorBb          C majorC   DmDm
Fa la la la la la-la laa la la

🎸 Verse 14:
      DmDm          C majorC
The harp of Death began to play alone
    FF          DmDm
Lay te bent to the bonnie broom
       DmDm           A minorAm
The sweetest song to melt a heart of stone
Bb majorBb          C majorC   DmDm
Fa la la la la la-la laa la la

🎸 Verse 15:
    DmDm              C majorC
Golden strings rang out a truthful sound
    FF          DmDm
Lay te bent to the bonnie broom
     DmDm            A minorAm
The elder sister has the younger drowned
Bb majorBb          C majorC   DmDm
Fa la la la la la-la laa la la

🎸 Verse 16:
      DmDm            C majorC
Strings of sorrow made of golden curls
    FF          DmDm
Lay te bent to the bonnie broom
      DmDm              A minorAm
Wreak their vengeance on the black-haired girl
Bb majorBb          C majorC   DmDm
Fa la la la la la-la laa la la

🎸 Verse 17:
     DmDm          C/EC/E
The song ends heere dark and low
    FF          DmDm
Lay te bent to the bonnie broom
      DmDm         A minorAm
And surely now her blood will flow
Bb majorBb          C majorC   DmDm
Fa la la la la la-la laa la la