Cold And Raw chords by June Tabor

Intro:
Am  G  Am

Verse:
Am        G
Cold and raw the North did blow
Am           Em
Bleak in the morning early
Am         G
All the trees were hid in snow
Am          Em
Dagl'd by winter yearly
C        G
Gentleman riding o'er the heather
Am            Em
Met with a farmer's daughter
  C          G
Her rosy cheeks and her bonny brow
   Am         A
They made his mouth to water

Verse:
Am      G
Quickly he saluted me
Am            Em
Meaning to shew his breeding
 Am         G
I bowed to him right gracefully
  Am       Em
His courtesy exceeding
  C        G
He asked me where I went so soon
  Am          Em
And longed to begin a parley
 C           G
I told him, to the next market town
 Am          A
A-purpose to sell me barley

Verse:
 Am          G
"In this purse, sweet girl," says he
 Am          Em
"Twenty pounds lie fairly
Am       G
Seek no further one to buy
  Am          Em
For I'll take all your barley
C         G
Twenty more would buy delight
   Am         Em
Your body I love so dearly
  C         G
If you would lay with me all night
    Am           A
And go home in the morning early"

Instrumental:
Am  G  Am  Em
Am  G  Am  Em
C  G  Am  Em
C  G  Am  A

Verse:
  Am         G
"If twenty pounds could buy the globe
   Am         Em
It's this I'd never do, sir
  Am       G
Or were me kin as poor as Job
 Am           Em
I would not raise 'em so, sir
C       G
If I lay with you this night
   Am          Em
We'd get a young child together
  C           G
And you'd be gone ere the nine months end
  Am           A
And where should I find a father?"

Verse:
  Am       G
He told me he had married been
Am          Em
Fourteen years and longer
  Am        G
Or else he'd take me for his own
  Am           Em
And tie the knot much stronger
 C         G
I bade him then, no further roam
  Am           Em
But manage his wedlock fairly
  C           G
And keep his gold for his wife at home
     Am           A
And some other shall have my barley