Search

☀️ 🌙 📟

My Songbook

Willie O Winsbury by Ye Vagabonds

Chords

Difficulty

Beginner 👶

Rate for accuracy

🎸

0/5 ( votes)

Tuning: E A D G B E

Verse 1:
    C                  G          D
The king he has been a poor prisoner
      C        D       C
And a prisoner long in Spain
      G      C      G     Em
While Willie o' the Winsbury
         D             G           C
Has lain long with his daughter at hame
 
Verse 2:
      C                           G        D
"What ails you, what ails you, my daughter dear
        C       D        C
For you look so pale and wan?
    G        C       G        Em
Oh, have you had any sore sickness
            G              C
Or yet been sleeping wi' a man "

Verse 3:
   C                G        D
"I have not had any sore sickness
    C        D              C
Nor yet been sleeping wi' a man
     G            C       G      Em
Twas grieving for you, my father dear
      D         G       C
After biding so long in Spain"
 
Verse 4:
      C                  G           D
"Cast off, cast off your berry-brown gown
      C       D    C
Stand naked upon a stane
       G       C      G    Em
That I may ken you by your shape
         D       G         C
Whether you be a maiden or nane"
 
Verse 5:
               C      G           D
So she's cast off her berry-brown gown
      C     D      C
Stood naked upon a stane
    G             C             G         Em
Her haunches were round and her apron was short
    D                 G        C
Her cheeks, they were pale and wan
 
Verse 6:
        C              G         D
"So, is he a lord or a duke or a knight
      C     D        C
Or a man of birth or fame?
      G         C  G       Em
Or is he one of my serving men
       D           G      C
That's lately come out of Spain "
 
Verse 7:
          C                G         D
"Oh he is nae a lord, or a duke or a knight
      C      D        C
Nor a man of birth or fame
       G      C     G     Em
But he is Willie o' Winsbury
        D            G     C
I could bide nae longer my lane"
 
Verse 8:
       C                           G         D
So the king, he has called for his merry men all
    C         D          C
His merry men thirty and three
       G        C         G     Em
Says, "Bring me Willie o' Winsbury
    D         G     C
For hanged he shall be"
 
Verse 9:
            C        G    D
But when he came the king before
       C        D          C
He was clad all in the red silk
    G           C        G          Em
His hair it was like the strands of gold
    D                 G        C
His cheeks, they were white as milk
 
Verse 10:
       C                    G        D
"Well, it is nae a wonder," says the king
    C          D             C
"My daughter's heart you did win
    G           C         G      Em
For if I were a woman, as I am a man
   D             G          C
My bedfellow you would have been."
 
Verse 11:
         C            G        D
"So will you marry my daughter Janet
       C        D          C
By the truth of your right hand?
    G        C        G        Em
And will you marry my daughter Janet
         D           G         C
And be a lord of the land "
 
Verse 12:
      C                 G        D
"Yes, I will marry your daughter Janet
       C        D        C
By the truth of my right hand
      G          C    G        Em
And I will marry your daughter Janet
      D          G           C
But I won't be a lord of the land"
 
Verse 13:
        C                G          D
So he's mounted her on a milk-white steed
    C            D      C
And himself on a dapple grey
         G          C          G    Em
And he's made her a lady of as much land
        D               G             C
As they could ride in a long summer's day