Bonnie Mae chords by Solas

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
C majorC

Verse:

       Dm7Dm7      C majorC
Bonnie Mae a-shepherding's gone

  Dm7Dm7   C majorC      G+G
To call the sheep to the fold

  C majorC                   Dm7Dm7
And aye, as she sang, her bonny voice, it rang

   G+G              C majorC
Right over the tops of the downs, downs

           G+G   C majorC
Over the tops of the downs

Verse:

           Dm7Dm7  C majorC
There came a troop of gentlemen

  Dm7Dm7    C majorC   G+G
As they were riding by

  C majorC            Dm7Dm7
And one of them has lighted down

     G+G             C majorC
And he's asked of her the way, the way

           G+G
He's asked of her the way

Verse:

   C majorC        Dm7Dm7  C majorC
"Ride on, ride on, you rank riders

   Dm7Dm7    C majorC     G+G
Your steeds are stout and strong

     C majorC             Dm7Dm7
For it's out of the fold I will not go

  G+G            C majorC
For fear you'll do me wrong, wrong

         G+G
Fear you'll do me wrong"

Verse:

     C majorC     Dm7Dm7      C majorC
Now he's taken her by the middle jip

  Dm7Dm7  C majorC     G+G
And by the green gown sleeve

  C majorC             Dm7Dm7
And there he's had his will of her

     G+G             C majorC
And he's asked of her no leave, no leave

           G+G
He's asked of her no leave

Verse:

   C majorC          Dm7Dm7     C majorC
"Oh, I've ridden east and I've ridden west

  Dm7Dm7     C majorC    G+G
And I've ridden o'er the downs

    C majorC             Dm7Dm7
But the bonniest lass that ever I saw

  G+G
Is calling her sheep to the fold"

Verse:

    C majorC          Dm7Dm7  C majorC
She has taken the milk pail on her head

  Dm7Dm7    C majorC     G+G
And she's gone lingering home

      C majorC       Dm7Dm7
And all her father said to her

   G+G                C majorC
Was, "Daughter, you've done me wrong, wrong

             G+G
Daughter, you've done me wrong"

Verse:

  C majorC         Dm7Dm7   C majorC
Now twenty weeks were gone and past

Dm7Dm7  C majorC     G+G
Twenty weeks and three

    C majorC              Dm7Dm7
And the lassie began to fret and to frown

    G+G                 C majorC
And to long for his twinkling eye, bright eye

            G+G
Long for his twinkling eye

Instrumental:
FF G+G C majorC FF G+G C majorC FF G+G C majorC G+G

Verse:

    C majorC          Dm7Dm7      C majorC
Now it fell on a day, and a bonny summer's day

  Dm7Dm7    C majorC  G+G
For she walked out alone

   C majorC            Dm7Dm7
That selfsame troop of gentlemen

    G+G           C majorC
Came a-riding o'er the downs, downs

        G+G   C majorC
Riding o'er the downs

Verse:

            Dm7Dm7     C majorC
"Who got the babe with thee, Bonnie Mae?

  Dm7Dm7   C majorC      G+G
Who got the babe in thy arms?"

       C majorC          Dm7Dm7
For shame she blushed and aye, she said

    G+G
"I've a good man of my own"

Verse:

   C majorC         Dm7Dm7     C majorC
"You lie, you lie, you bonny, bonny Mae

  Dm7Dm7  C majorC    G+G
So loud I hear you lie

 C majorC            Dm7Dm7
Remember the misty, murky night

 G+G                C majorC
I lay in the fold with thee, with thee

            G+G
I lay in the fold with thee

Verse:

     C majorC        Dm7Dm7     C majorC
Now he's lighted off his berry-brown steed

   Dm7Dm7   C majorC    G+G
He's set the fair Mae on

  C majorC                  Dm7Dm7
"Go call out your fold, good father, yourself

    G+G            C majorC
She'll ne'er call them again, again

            G+G
She'll ne'er call them again"

Verse:

  C majorC        Dm7Dm7 C majorC
For he's the Lord of Achentrioch

   Dm7Dm7  C majorC     G+G
With fifty plough and three

     C majorC            Dm7Dm7
And he's taken away the bonniest lass

  G+G             C majorC
In all the south country, country

           G+G
In all the south country