Sir James The Rose chords by Steeleye Span

Chords with lyrics

Verse
  G+G
Oh, have you heard Sir James the Rose
  D MajorD
The young heir of Loch Laggan
  A minorAm       E minorEm
For he has killed a gallant squire
    C majorC         D MajorD
And his friends are out to take him

Verse
  G+G
And he's gone to the House of Marr
  D MajorD
The Nurse there did befriend him
  A minorAm      E minorEm
And he has gone upon his knees
  C majorC         D MajorD
And begged for her to hide him

Verse
 G+G            C majorC      G+G
"Where're you going, Sir James?" she said
 G+G
"Where now are you riding?"
   C majorC  G+G      C majorC
"Oh, I am bound for a foreign land
  G+G    D MajorD   G+G
But now I'm under hiding"

 C majorC       G+G  C majorC       G+G
"Where shall I go? Where shall I run?
C majorC       G+G     D MajorD
Where shall I go for to hide me?
C majorC  G+G   D MajorD    G+G    C majorC  A minorAm
For I have killed a gallant squire
      G+G    D MajorD   C majorC  G/BG/B A minorAm G+G
And they're seeking for to slay me"

Instrumental
G+G
D MajorD  C majorC G+G

Verse
    G+G
Then he turned him right and round about
  D MajorD
And rolled him in the bracken
  A minorAm       E minorEm
And he has gone to take a sleep
    C majorC        D MajorD
In the lowlands of Loch Laggan

Verse
  G+G
He had not well gone out of sight
  D MajorD
Nor was he past Milstrethen
   A minorAm       E minorEm
When four-and-twenty belted knights
   C majorC        D MajorD
Came riding o'er the leathen

Verse
 G+G         C majorC     G+G
"Have you seen Sir James the Rose
  G+G
The young heir of Loch Laggan
  C majorC   G+G    C majorC
For he has killed a gallant squire
  G+G     D MajorD   G+G
And we're sent out to take him"

 C majorC       G+G  C majorC       G+G
"Where shall I go? Where shall I run?
C majorC       G+G     D MajorD
Where shall I go for to hide me?
C majorC  G+G   D MajorD    G+G    C majorC  A minorAm
For I have killed a gallant squire
      G+G    D MajorD   C majorC  G/BG/B A minorAm G+G
And they're seeking for to slay me"

Instrumental
G+G
D MajorD  C majorC G+G

Verse
    G+G
"You'll see the bank above the mill
    D MajorD
In the lowlands of Loch Laggan
  A minorAm          E minorEm
And there you'll find Sir James the Rose
C majorC        D MajorD
Sleeping in the bracken"

Verse
   G+G
"You must not wake him out of sleep
  D MajorD
Nor yet must you afright him
   A minorAm        E minorEm
Just run a dart right through his heart
  C majorC        D MajorD
And through the body pierce him"

Verse
   G+G        C majorC    G+G
They sought the bank above the mill
    G+G
In the lowlands of Loch Laggan
  C majorC     G+G     C majorC
And there they found Sir James the Rose
G+G    D MajorD   G+G
Sleeping in the bracken

 C majorC       G+G  C majorC       G+G
"Where shall I go? Where shall I run?
C majorC       G+G     D MajorD
Where shall I go for to hide me?
C majorC  G+G   D MajorD    G+G    C majorC  A minorAm
For I have killed a gallant squire
      G+G    D MajorD   C majorC  G/BG/B A minorAm G+G
And they're seeking for to slay me"

Instrumental
E minorEm  G+G  E minorEm  G+G  E minorEm  G+G  E minorEm  G+G
E minorEm  G+G  E minorEm  G+G  E minorEm  G+G  E minorEm  D MajorD G+G

Verse
   G+G
Then up and spake Sir John the Graeme
  D MajorD
Who had the charge a-keeping
    A minorAm         E minorEm
"It'll never be said, dear gentleman
  C majorC           D MajorD
We killed him while he's sleeping"

Verse
   G+G
They seized his broadsword and his targe
  D MajorD
And closely him surrounded
  A minorAm        E minorEm
And when he woke out of his sleep
  C majorC       D MajorD
His senses were confounded

Verse
  G+G        C majorC    G+G
Now they have taken out his heart
  G+G
And stuck it on a spear
   C majorC    G+G   C majorC
They took it to the House of Marr
  G+G    D MajorD   G+G
And gave it to his dear

 C majorC       G+G  C majorC       G+G
"Where shall I go? Where shall I run?
C majorC       G+G     D MajorD
Where shall I go for to hide me?
C majorC  G+G   D MajorD    G+G    C majorC  A minorAm
For I have killed a gallant squire
      G+G    D MajorD   C majorC  G/BG/B A minorAm G+G
And they're seeking for to slay me"

Outro
G+G
D MajorD  C majorC G+G