Anachie Gordon
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Afinação: E A D G B ETecla: FCapotraste:
3rd traste
[Intro]
G A D Bm A G
D Em D
Buchan is bonny and there lives my love
G D Bm A G
My heart it lies on him and will not remove
D A Bm G D
It will not remove for all that I have done
G D Bm A G
Oh I never will forget me love, Annachie
D A Bm G D
For Annachie Gordon, he's bonny and he's braw
G D Bm A G
He'd entice any woman that ever he saw
D A Bm G D
He'd entice any woman, and so he has done me
G D Bm A G
And I never will forget my love, Annachie
D Em D
Down came her father, he's standing at the door
G D Bm A G
Saying, "Jeannie, you are trying the tricks of a whore
D A Bm G D
You care nothing for a man who cares so very much for thee
G D Bm A G
You must marry Lord Salton and leave Annachie"
D A Bm G D
"For Annachie Gordon, he's barely but a man
G D Bm A G
Although he may be pretty, but where are his lands?
D A Bm G D
For Lord Salton's lands are broad and his towers, they run high
G D Bm A G
You must marry Lord Salton and leave Annachie"
D Em D
With Annachie Gordon I beg for my bread
G D Bm A G
Before I marry Salton, his gold to my head
D A Bm G D
His gold to my head and gowns hemmed to my knee
G D Bm A G
And I'll die if I don't get my love, Annachie
D A Bm G D
nd you, who are my parents, to church you may me bring
G D Bm A G
But unto Lord Salton I'll never bear a son
D A Bm G D
To a son or a daughter I'll never bow my knee
G D Bm A G
And I'll die if I don't get my love, Annachie
D Em D
Jeannie was married, from church was brought home
G D Bm A G
When she and her maidens so merry should have been
D A Bm G D
When she and her maidens so merry should have been
G D Bm A G
She goes into her chamber and cries all alone
D Em D
"Come to my bed, my Jeannie, my honey and my sweet
G D Bm A G
To stile you my mistress, it would be so sweet"
D A Bm G D
"Be it mistress or Jeannie, it's all the same to me
G D Bm A G
But in your bed, Lord Sultan, I never will lie"
D A Bm G D
And down came her father, he's spoken with renown
G D A D
Saying, "You, who are her maidens, go loosen up her gowns"
D A Bm G D
And she fell down to the floor and straight down to her knee
G D Bm A G
Saying, "Father, look I'm dying, for my love Annachie"
D Em D
The day that Jeannie married was the day that Jeannie died
G D Bm A G
And the day that young Annachie came home on the tide
D A Bm G D
And down came her maidens all wringing of their hands
G D Bm A G
Saying. "Oh, it's been so long, you've been so long on the sands
D A Bm G D
So long on the sands, so long on the flood
G D Bm A G
They have married your Jeannie and now she lies dead"
D Em D
"You, who are her maidens, come take me by the hand
G D Bm A G
And lead me to the chamber where my love, she lies in"
D A Bm G D
And he kissed her cold lips till his heart it turned to stone
G D Bm A G
And he died in the chamber that his love, she lies in
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What is the starting chord?
The first identified chord is E. You can transpose without leaving the page.
Can I play it on guitar or keyboard?
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