Lady Isabel And The Elf-Knight
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Afinação: E A D G B ECapotraste: Sem capotraste
[Verse]
D
Lady Isabel sat at her window sewing
D F D
Aye as the gowans grow gay
D Am
When she heard an elf-knight on his branc horn a-blowing
D F D
On the first morning in May
[Verse]
D
"Oh, I'd that horn that I hear blow so clearly,"
D F D
Aye as the gowans grow gay
D Am
"And yonder elf-knight for to love me so dearly."
D F D
On the first morning in May
[Verse]
D
Well this maiden had scarcely the fatal words spoken
D F D
Aye as the gowans grow gay
D Am
When in her window the elf-knight has broken
D F D
On the first morning in May
[Verse]
D
"Hey, here's a strange matter, fair maiden," said he
D F D
Aye as the gowans grow gay
D Am
"I cannae blow horn but you call out to me."
D F D
On the first morning in May
[Verse]
D
"But will you come doon on to yon greenwood side?"
D F D
Aye as the gowans grow gay
D Am
"Come tak a fair horse and together we'll ride."
D F D
On the first morning in May
[Verse]
D
And he's left on a horse and she on another
D F D
Aye as the gowans grow gay
D Am
And they have gone doon to the greenwood together
D F D
On the first morning in May
[Verse]
D
"Lie down you, lie down you, fair maiden," says he
D F D
Aye as the gowans grow gay
D Am
"We are come to the place where ye are to die."
D F D
On the first morning in May
[Verse]
D
"Hae mercy, hae mercy, Sir Elf-Knight, on me."
D F D
Aye as the gowans grow gay
D Am
"Till aince more my mother and father I see."
D F D
On the first morning in May
[Verse]
D
"Well seven kings daughters here have I slain."
D F D
Aye as the gowans grow gay
D Am
"And you'll be the eighth, will forever remain."
D F D
On the first morning in May
[Verse]
D
"Come sit doon a while, rest your head on my knee."
D F D
Aye as the gowans grow gay
D Am
"Let we make our rest here before that I die."
D F D
On the first morning in May
[Verse]
D
And she's stroked his dark head and she's whispered so sweet
D F D
Aye as the gowans grow gay
D Am
That the elf-knight was soon lulléd fast, fast asleep
D F D
On the first morning in May
[Verse]
D
And she's ta'en his ain sword-belt and bound him aroond
D F D
Aye as the gowans grow gay
D Am
And with his own dirk struck the fiend his death wound
D F D
On the first morning in May
[Verse]
D
"Well, if seven kings daughters were slain here by ye,"
D F D
Aye as the gowans grow gay
D Am
"Then lie here and keep them all good company."
D F D
On the first morning in May
D F D
On the first morning in May x2
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