Willy O Winsbury chords by Pentangle

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Every verse has the same chords.

   FF    C majorC    G+G
The king has been a prisoner,
    A minorAm   G+G    FF
And a prisoner long in Spain,
   C majorC   A minorAm   E minorEm
And Willie of the Winsbury
     FF        C majorC     FF
Has lain long with his daughter at home.

    FF               C majorC    G+G
"What ails you, what ails you, my daughter Janet,
     A minorAm   G+G    FF
That you look so pale and wan?
   C majorC    A minorAm    E minorEm
Oh, have you had any sore sickness
  FF     C majorC       FF
Or yet been sleeping with a man?"

    FF         C majorC   G+G
"No, I have not had any sore sickness,
  A minorAm     G+G       FF
Nor yet been sleeping with a man.
    C majorC   A minorAm    E minorEm
But it is for you, my father dear,
    FF  C majorC     FF
For biding so long in Spain."

    FF         C majorC      G+G
"Cast off, cast off your berry-brown gown,
      A minorAm  G+G     FF
And stand naked upon the stone,
   C majorC   A minorAm   E minorEm
That I may know you by your shape,
  FF    C majorC     FF
If you be a maiden or none."

   FF          C majorC     G+G
And she's cast off her berry-brown gown
      A minorAm  G+G     FF
And stood naked upon the stone
   C majorC     A minorAm      E minorEm
Her apron was low and her haunches were round,
   FF    C majorC    FF
Her skin was pale and wan.

   FF            C majorC     G+G
"Oh, was it with a lord or a duke or a knight,
   A minorAm   G+G     FF
Or a man of birth and fame,
  C majorC     A minorAm     E minorEm
Or was it with one of my serving men
    FF   C majorC      FF
Who's lately come out of Spain?"

     FF            C majorC     G+G
"No, it wasn't with a lord or a duke or a knight,
    A minorAm   G+G     FF
Nor a man of birth and fame,
    C majorC     A minorAm    E minorEm
But it was with Willie of Winsbury,
    FF     C majorC   FF
I could bide no longer alone."

     FF           C majorC     G+G
Now the king has called on his merry men all,
  A minorAm   G+G   FF
By thirty and by three,
    C majorC      A minorAm    E minorEm
Says, "Fetch me this Willie of Winsbury,
   FF   C majorC    FF
For hanged he shall be."

[- Instrumental verse -]

   FF        C majorC   G+G
But when he came the king before,
    A minorAm    G+G     FF
He was clad all in the red silk.
   C majorC    A minorAm    E minorEm
His hair was like the golden strands,
   FF      C majorC      FF
His skin was as white as the milk.

     FF       C majorC    G+G
And "It is no wonder," said the king,
      A minorAm     G+G      FF
"That my daughter's love you did win.
    C majorC    A minorAm     E minorEm
For if I were a woman, as I am a man,
   FF    C majorC      FF
My bedfellow you would have been."

   FF         C majorC    G+G
"Oh will you marry my daughter Janet,
    A minorAm    G+G     FF
By the truth of your right hand?
   C majorC    A minorAm    E minorEm
Oh, will you marry my daughter Janet?
    FF      C majorC      FF
I'll make you the lord of my land."

   FF            C majorC    G+G
"Oh yes, I will marry your daughter Janet.
    A minorAm   G+G     FF
By the truth of my right hand.
   C majorC      A minorAm     E minorEm
Why yes, I will marry your daughter Janet,
     FF      C majorC      FF
But I'll not be the lord of your land."

      FF        C majorC     G+G
And he's mounted her on a milk-white steed,
   A minorAm      G+G   FF
And himself on a dapple grey.
    C majorC       A minorAm   E minorEm
He has made her the lady of as much land
       FF     C majorC       FF