The Lincolnshire Shepherd chords by The Watersons

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: FF

Difficulty: Intermediate

Chorus:
FF     Bb majorBb    FF         C majorC
Yan, tan, tethera, tethera, pethera, pimp.
  FF       Bb majorBb      C majorC      FF
Yon owd ewe's far-welted, this ewe's got a limp
FF         Bb majorBb     FF      C majorC
Sethera, methera, hovera, and covera up to dik,
FF       Bb majorBb        C majorC          FF
Whose ta deal wi' 'em all, and wheer's me crook and stick?

Verse 1:
   FF        Bb majorBb      FF        C majorC
Why I count 'em up to figgits, and figgit there's a notch,
      FF        Bb majorBb        C majorC    FF
Why there's more to being a shepherd than to being on watch;
      FF             Bb majorBb        FF       C majorC
For there's swedes to chop and there's lambing time and snow upon the rick,
FF     Bb majorBb      C majorC      FF
Yan, tan, tethera, and covera up to dik.


Chorus:
FF     Bb majorBb    FF         C majorC
Yan, tan, tethera, tethera, pethera, pimp.
  FF       Bb majorBb      C majorC      FF
Yon owd ewe's far-welted, this ewe's got a limp
FF         Bb majorBb     FF      C majorC
Sethera, methera, hovera, and covera up to dik,
FF       Bb majorBb        C majorC          FF
Whose ta deal wi' 'em all, and wheer's me crook and stick?


Verse 2:
     FF        Bb majorBb      FF       C majorC
Why from Caistor down to Spilsby from Sleaford up to Brigg,
    FF         Bb majorBb        C majorC         FF
There's Lincoln sheep all on the chalk, all hung wi' wool and big.
  FF      Bb majorBb   FF         C majorC
And I'm here in Langton wi' this same old flock,
   FF        Bb majorBb       C majorC        FF
Just like me grandad did afore they meddled with the clock.


Chorus:
FF     Bb majorBb    FF         C majorC
Yan, tan, tethera, tethera, pethera, pimp.
  FF       Bb majorBb      C majorC      FF
Yon owd ewe's far-welted, this ewe's got a limp
FF         Bb majorBb     FF      C majorC
Sethera, methera, hovera, and covera up to dik,
FF       Bb majorBb        C majorC          FF
Whose ta deal wi' 'em all, and wheer's me crook and stick?

Verse 3:
     FF         Bb majorBb       FF          C majorC
For we've bred our tups and gimmers for the shape and length and girth,
  FF           Bb majorBb      C majorC      FF
And sheep have bred, have gone away all o'er all the earth.
      FF        Bb majorBb         FF          C majorC
Why they've bred in foreign flocks to give the wool its length and crimp,
FF     Bb majorBb    C majorC    FF
Yan, tan, tethera, pethera, pimp.


Chorus:
FF     Bb majorBb    FF         C majorC
Yan, tan, tethera, tethera, pethera, pimp.
  FF       Bb majorBb      C majorC      FF
Yon owd ewe's far-welted, this ewe's got a limp
FF         Bb majorBb     FF      C majorC
Sethera, methera, hovera, and covera up to dik,
FF       Bb majorBb        C majorC          FF
Whose ta deal wi' 'em all, and wheer's me crook and stick?


Verse 4:
      FF       Bb majorBb           FF        C majorC
For they're like a lot of bairns, they are, like youngsters of me own,
     FF       Bb majorBb       C majorC            FF
when They fondle around about owd Shep until they're strong and grown;
  FF       Bb majorBb      FF             C majorC
But they gets independent-like, an a'fore i knows, they've gone,
    FF        Bb majorBb        C majorC       FF
And yet come round next lambing time some more'll carry on.


Chorus:
FF     Bb majorBb    FF         C majorC
Yan, tan, tethera, tethera, pethera, pimp.
  FF       Bb majorBb      C majorC      FF
Yon owd ewe's far-welted, this ewe's got a limp
FF         Bb majorBb     FF      C majorC
Sethera, methera, hovera, and covera up to dik,
FF       Bb majorBb        C majorC          FF
Whose ta deal wi' 'em all, and wheer's me crook and stick?


Verse 5:
  FF     Bb majorBb    FF         C majorC
Why Yan, tan, tethera, tethera, pethera, pimp,
 FF       Bb majorBb      C majorC       FF
Fifteen notches up to now and one ewe with a limp.
    FF        Bb majorBb        FF        C majorC
Why you reckons I should go away, but you know I'll never go,
  FF         Bb majorBb      C majorC      FF
For lambing time's on top of us and it'll surely snow.


Chorus:
FF     Bb majorBb    FF         C majorC
Yan, tan, tethera, tethera, pethera, pimp.
  FF       Bb majorBb      C majorC      FF
Yon owd ewe's far-welted, this ewe's got a limp
FF         Bb majorBb     FF      C majorC
Sethera, methera, hovera, and covera up to dik,
FF       Bb majorBb        C majorC          FF
Whose ta deal wi' 'em all, and wheer's me crook and stick?


Verse 6:
     FF         Bb majorBb         FF       C majorC
For it's lambing time comes reg'lar-like, just as it's always been,
  FF         Bb majorBb       C majorC           FF
And shepherds have to tend to them until they're strong an weaned
    FF        Bb majorBb          FF       C majorC
Why my family did it a'fore I came, they'll have it when I sleep,
  FF           Bb majorBb         C majorC       FF
And they shall count their lambing times like I am countin' sheep.


Chorus:
FF     Bb majorBb    FF         C majorC
Yan, tan, tethera, tethera, pethera, pimp.
  FF       Bb majorBb      C majorC      FF
Yon owd ewe's far-welted, this ewe's got a limp
FF         Bb majorBb     FF      C majorC
Sethera, methera, hovera, and covera up to dik,
FF       Bb majorBb        C majorC          FF
Whose ta deal wi' 'em all, and wheer's me crook and stick?