Mackerel Of The Sea

Afinação: E A D G B ECapotraste: Sem capotraste [Intro] C Gm C Gm C Gm C Gm [Verse-A 1] C When I was seven year old Gm My mother did die, C My father married the worst woman Gm The world did ever see. C She turned me to a loathsome worm Gm To lie at the foot of the tree, Bb My sister Maisery she made F Eb The mackerel of the sea. [Verse-A 2] C This father stood on the shore Gm And hearing sore complaint, C And wondered at the laily moan Gm And questioned what it meant. C “Sing on your song you laily worm Gm That you now sing to me, Bb For my two children have been gone F Eb This many year from me.” [Chorus] G Cm Every Saturday at noon Bb D Eb The mackerel comes to me, F Cm Bb Gm Changed back to my sister, Eb D The Lady Maisery. Cm Bb F Gm And she takes my laily head Ab Bb F And lays it on her knee, G Cm And combs it with a silver comb Bb D Eb To wash it in the sea. [Bridge 1] C Gm C Gm [Verse-A 3] C “Seven knights I have slain Gm As I lay at the foot of the tree, C And if you weren’t my own father Gm The eighth one you would be. C “For it was your own wife Gm Tied me to the foot of the tree, Bb And turned the lovely Maisery F Eb To the mackerel of the sea.” [Verse-A 4] C The father sent for his own wife Gm As fast as send could he, Bb “Where is the son you sent from me F Eb And my daughter, Maisery?” C “Why cry out so loudly Gm And try to worry me? C Your son is at our king’s court Gm Serving for meat and fee. Bb And your daughter, at our queen’s court F Eb Learning courtesy.” [Verse-A 5] C “You lie, you lie, you ill woman" Gm So loud I hear you lie! C My son he is the loathsome worm Gm That lies at the foot of the tree, Bb And my daughter Maisery F Eb Is the mackerel of the sea.” [Chorus] G Cm Every Saturday at noon Bb D Eb The mackerel comes to me, F Cm Bb Gm Changed back to my sister, Eb D The Lady Maisery. Cm Bb F Gm And she takes my laily head Ab Bb F And lays it on her knee, G Cm And combs it with a silver comb Bb D Eb To wash it in the sea. [Bridge 2] C Gm C C [Instrumental] Fm Eb Gm F Dm Cm Ab Ab Ab Eb Cm Bb Ab Ab Ab Fm [Verse-B 1] Fm Eb Gm F She has taken a silver wand Dm Cm Bb Ab And she gave him strokes three, Ab Eb Cm Bb The worm became the bravest knight Ab Fm Cm Eb That ever your eyes did see. [Verse-B 2] Fm Eb Gm F She has taken a golden horn Dm Cm Bb Ab Loud and shrill she blew, Ab Eb Cm Bb And all the fish soon swam to her Ab Fm Cm Eb But not the mackerel of the sea. [Verse-B 3] Fm Eb Gm F “You shaped me once, an unseemly shape, Dm Cm Bb Ab You’ll never more shape me!” Ab Eb Cm Bb And away she swam from that cold shore Ab Fm And was lost forever. [Bridge 3] C Gm C Gm C Gm C C [Chorus] G Cm Every Saturday at noon Bb D Eb The mackerel comes to me, F Cm Bb Gm Changed back to my sister, Eb D The Lady Maisery. Cm Bb F Gm And she takes my laily head Ab Bb F And lays it on her knee, G Cm And combs it with a silver comb Bb D Eb To wash it in the sea. [Outro] C Gm C Gm C Gm C Gm