Bonnie Mae chords by Solas

Intro:
C

Verse:

             Dm7           C
Bonnie Mae a-shepherding's gone

   Dm7      C            G
To call the sheep to the fold

    C                                     Dm7
And aye, as she sang, her bonny voice, it rang

      G                           C
Right over the tops of the downs, downs

                     G      C
Over the tops of the downs

Verse:

                      Dm7   C
There came a troop of gentlemen

   Dm7       C      G
As they were riding by

    C                       Dm7
And one of them has lighted down

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

                      G
He's asked of her the way

Verse:

      C                Dm7    C
"Ride on, ride on, you rank riders

     Dm7        C         G
Your steeds are stout and strong

         C                          Dm7
For it's out of the fold I will not go

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

                  G
Fear you'll do me wrong"

Verse:

         C         Dm7           C
Now he's taken her by the middle jip

    Dm7    C          G
And by the green gown sleeve

    C                          Dm7
And there he's had his will of her

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

                     G
He's asked of her no leave

Verse:

     C                    Dm7         C
"Oh, I've ridden east and I've ridden west

    Dm7         C        G
And I've ridden o'er the downs

        C                         Dm7
But the bonniest lass that ever I saw

   G
Is calling her sheep to the fold"

Verse:

        C                   Dm7    C
She has taken the milk pail on her head

    Dm7        C         G
And she's gone lingering home

            C              Dm7
And all her father said to her

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

                         G
Daughter, you've done me wrong"

Verse:

    C                 Dm7      C
Now twenty weeks were gone and past

Dm7    C         G
Twenty weeks and three

        C                           Dm7
And the lassie began to fret and to frown

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

                       G
Long for his twinkling eye

Instrumental:
F  G  C  F  G  C  F  G  C  G

Verse:

       C                    Dm7            C
Now it fell on a day, and a bonny summer's day

    Dm7        C    G
For she walked out alone

     C                       Dm7
That selfsame troop of gentlemen

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

                G      C
Riding o'er the downs

Verse:

                       Dm7          C
"Who got the babe with thee, Bonnie Mae?

    Dm7     C           G
Who got the babe in thy arms?"

              C                    Dm7
For shame she blushed and aye, she said

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

Verse:

     C                 Dm7          C
"You lie, you lie, you bonny, bonny Mae

   Dm7    C        G
So loud I hear you lie

  C                       Dm7
Remember the misty, murky night

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

                       G
I lay in the fold with thee

Verse:

         C               Dm7         C
Now he's lighted off his berry-brown steed

     Dm7     C        G
He's set the fair Mae on

    C                                    Dm7
"Go call out your fold, good father, yourself

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

                        G
She'll ne'er call them again"

Verse:

    C                Dm7  C
For he's the Lord of Achentrioch

     Dm7   C          G
With fifty plough and three

         C                       Dm7
And he's taken away the bonniest lass

   G                          C
In all the south country, country

                     G
In all the south country