Willie O Winsbury chords by Pentangle

Chords with lyrics

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

Verse 1:
  G+G    D MajorD        A7A7
The king has been a poor prisoner
   G+G    A7A7    G+G
And a prisoner long in Spain
  D MajorD   B minorBm    F# minorF#m
And Willie O the Winsbury
     D MajorD       B minorBm    G+G
Has lain long with his daughter Jane.


 Verse 2:
  G+G         D MajorD       A7A7
What ails you, what ails you, my daughter Jane
   G+G     A7A7    G+G
Why you look so pale and wan?
 D MajorD    B minorBm    F# minorF#m
Have you had any sore sickness
  D MajorD       B minorBm    G+G
Or yet been sleeping with a man?

 Verse 3:
  G+G    D MajorD       A7A7
I have not had no sore sickness
   G+G    A7A7      G+G
Nor yet been sleeping with a man
  D MajorD   B minorBm   F# minorF#m
It is for you my father dear
  D MajorD     B minorBm    G+G
For biding so long in Spain.


 Verse 4:
   G+G    D MajorD     A7A7
Cast off, cast off, your berry brown gown
   G+G   A7A7    G+G
Stand naked on the stone
  D MajorD   B minorBm    F# minorF#m
That I may know you by your shape
 D MajorD     B minorBm    G+G
If you be a maiden or none.


 Verse 5:
  G+G     D MajorD      A7A7
And shes cast off her berry brown gown
   G+G   A7A7   G+G
Stood naked on the stone
  D MajorD     B minorBm       F# minorF#m
her apron was tight and her haunches was round
 D MajorD     B minorBm    G+G
Her face was pale and wan.

 Verse 6:
  G+G       D MajorD       A7A7
And was it with a lord or a duke or a knight
   G+G   A7A7    G+G
Or a man of birth and fame
  D MajorD     B minorBm     F# minorF#m
Or was it with one of my serving men
   D MajorD     B minorBm     G+G
While I was a prisoner in Spain?


 Verse 7:
   G+G      D MajorD       A7A7
No it wasnt with a lord or a duke or a knight
   G+G   A7A7    G+G
Or a man of birth and fame
  D MajorD    B minorBm     F# minorF#m
It was with Willie o Winsbury
    D MajorD    B minorBm   G+G
I could bide no longer alone.


 Verse 8:
    G+G    D MajorD     A7A7
And the king has called his serving men
 G+G    A7A7    G+G
By one by two and by three
  D MajorD     B minorBm        F# minorF#m
Saying, Where is this Willie o Winsbury?
  D MajorD    B minorBm    G+G
For hanged he shall be.


 Verse 9:
  G+G    D MajorD     A7A7
And when they came before the king
  G+G    A7A7    G+G
By one, by two and by three
  D MajorD       B minorBm         F# minorF#m
Willie should have been the first of them
    D MajorD      B minorBm   G+G
But the last of them was he.


 Verse 10:
  G+G   D MajorD     A7A7
And Willie O the Winsbury
   G+G      A7A7  G+G
All dressed out in red silk
  D MajorD   B minorBm       F# minorF#m
His hair hung like the strands of gold
  D MajorD     B minorBm    G+G
His breast was white as milk.


 Verse 11:
  G+G     D MajorD       A7A7
No wonder, no wonder, the king he said,
   G+G     A7A7      G+G
That my daughters love you did win
  D MajorD     B minorBm   F# minorF#m
If I were a woman as I am a man
 D MajorD    B minorBm        G+G
In my own bed you would have been.


 Verse 12:
  G+G    D MajorD        A7A7
And will you marry my daughter Jane
   G+G    A7A7      G+G
By the faith of your right hand?
  D MajorD        B minorBm     F# minorF#m
And Ill make you the lord of my serving men
  D MajorD      B minorBm     G+G
Ill make you the heir of my land.


 Verse 13:
  G+G    D MajorD     A7A7
Oh yes, Ill marry your daughter Jane
    G+G    A7A7    G+G
By the faith of my right hand.
    D MajorD     B minorBm     F# minorF#m
But Ill not be the lord of any men,
  D MajorD      B minorBm     G+G
Ill not be the heir to your land.


 Verse 14:
    G+G      D MajorD        A7A7
And he raised her up on a milk-white steed
  G+G    A7A7    G+G
Himself on a dapple grey
   D MajorD       B minorBm      F# minorF#m
He has made her the lady of as much land
     D MajorD     B minorBm      G+G
As she can ride in a long summers day.