Twa Corbies chords by Steeleye Span

Chords with lyrics

backing vocals. It was first recorded by them in 1970 for Hark! The Village Wait and then
again in 1995 as "Corbies" for their album Time.


Intro: E minorEm D MajorD  E minorEm

E minorEm        D MajorD  E minorEm
As I was walking all alane
E minorEm          D MajorD   E minorEm
I heard twa corbies makin' mane;
     G+G         D MajorD
And one ontae the other did say,
E minorEm            D MajorD    E minorEm
“Where shall we gang and dine the day
E minorEm            D MajorD    E minorEm
Where shall we gang and dine the day?”

E minorEm       D MajorD    E minorEm
“In behind yon oul fail dyke
E minorEm         D MajorD     E minorEm
I wot there lies a new slain knight;
       G+G         D MajorD
And naebody kens that he lies there
     E minorEm             D MajorD  E minorEm
But his hawk and his hound and his lady fair,
E minorEm               D MajorD  E minorEm
His hawk and his hound and his lady fair.”


E minorEm          D MajorD   E minorEm
His hawk is tae the hunting gane,
E minorEm            D MajorD   E minorEm
His hound to fetch the wildfowl hane;
        G+G      D MajorD
His lady has taken another mate
E minorEm          D MajorD   E minorEm
So we can make our dinner sweet,
E minorEm        D MajorD   E minorEm
We can make our dinner sweet”


E minorEm          D MajorD      E minorEm
“You can sit on his white breast bone
E minorEm           D MajorD     E minorEm
And I'll pick out his bonny blue een;
      G+G         D MajorD
And with a lock of his yellow hair
E minorEm            G+G     E minorEm
We'll theek our nest when it grows bare,
E minorEm            G+G     E minorEm
We'll theek our nest when it grows bare.”


E minorEm           D MajorD     E minorEm
“And many's a one for him makes mane
E minorEm         D MajorD    E minorEm
Naebody kens where he has gane;
          G+G          D MajorD
Through his white bones when they grow bare
E minorEm           D MajorD   E minorEm
The wind shall blow for evermare,
E minorEm           D MajorD   E minorEm