Chords with lyrics
- Capo on 3rd
- Difficulty: Beginner
Key: FF
Intro:
G+G A D MajorD B minorBm A G+G
D Em D
Buchan is bonny and there lives my love
G D Bm A augmentedA G+G
My heart it lies on him and will not remove
D A augmentedA Bm G D MajorD
It will not remove for all that I have done
G+G D MajorD B minorBm A augmentedA G+G
Oh I never will forget me love, Annachie
D A Bm G+G D MajorD
For Annachie Gordon, he's bonny and he's braw
G D MajorD Bm A G+G
He'd entice any woman that ever he saw
D A B minorBm G+G D
He'd entice any woman, and so he has done me
G+G D MajorD B minorBm A augmentedA G+G
And I never will forget my love, Annachie
D Em D
Down came her father, he's standing at the door
G D B minorBm A augmentedA G+G
Saying, "Jeannie, you are trying the tricks of a whore
D A augmentedA B minorBm G D MajorD
You care nothing for a man who cares so very much for thee
G+G D MajorD B minorBm A augmentedA G+G
You must marry Lord Salton and leave Annachie"
D A B minorBm G+G D
"For Annachie Gordon, he's barely but a man
G D MajorD B minorBm A G+G
Although he may be pretty, but where are his lands?
D A augmentedA B minorBm G+G D MajorD
For Lord Salton's lands are broad and his towers, they run high
G+G D MajorD B minorBm A augmentedA G+G
You must marry Lord Salton and leave Annachie"
D E minorEm D MajorD
With Annachie Gordon I beg for my bread
G D MajorD B minorBm A augmentedA G+G
Before I marry Salton, his gold to my head
D A B minorBm G+G D MajorD
His gold to my head and gowns hemmed to my knee
G+G D MajorD B minorBm A augmentedA G+G
And I'll die if I don't get my love, Annachie
D MajorD A augmentedA B minorBm G+G D MajorD
nd you, who are my parents, to church you may me bring
G D B minorBm A augmentedA G+G
But unto Lord Salton I'll never bear a son
D A B minorBm G+G D MajorD
To a son or a daughter I'll never bow my knee
G D MajorD Bm A augmentedA G+G
And I'll die if I don't get my love, Annachie
D E minorEm D MajorD
Jeannie was married, from church was brought home
G D B minorBm A augmentedA G+G
When she and her maidens so merry should have been
D A B minorBm G+G D MajorD
When she and her maidens so merry should have been
G+G D MajorD B minorBm A augmentedA G+G
She goes into her chamber and cries all alone
D Em D MajorD
"Come to my bed, my Jeannie, my honey and my sweet
G D MajorD Bm A augmentedA G+G
To stile you my mistress, it would be so sweet"
D A augmentedA B minorBm G D MajorD
"Be it mistress or Jeannie, it's all the same to me
G+G D MajorD B minorBm A augmentedA G+G
But in your bed, Lord Sultan, I never will lie"
D A augmentedA B minorBm G+G D
And down came her father, he's spoken with renown
G D A augmentedA D MajorD
Saying, "You, who are her maidens, go loosen up her gowns"
D A B minorBm G+G D MajorD
And she fell down to the floor and straight down to her knee
G+G D B minorBm A augmentedA G+G
Saying, "Father, look I'm dying, for my love Annachie"
D E minorEm D MajorD
The day that Jeannie married was the day that Jeannie died
G D MajorD Bm A G+G
And the day that young Annachie came home on the tide
D A B minorBm G+G D MajorD
And down came her maidens all wringing of their hands
G+G D MajorD B minorBm A augmentedA G+G
Saying. "Oh, it's been so long, you've been so long on the sands
D A augmentedA B minorBm G+G D MajorD
So long on the sands, so long on the flood
G+G D MajorD B minorBm A augmentedA G+G
They have married your Jeannie and now she lies dead"
D Em D MajorD
"You, who are her maidens, come take me by the hand
G D B minorBm A augmentedA G+G
And lead me to the chamber where my love, she lies in"
D A augmentedA B minorBm G+G D MajorD
And he kissed her cold lips till his heart it turned to stone
G D MajorD B minorBm A augmentedA G+G
And he died in the chamber that his love, she lies in