Mackerel Of The Sea
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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
How to play Mackerel Of The Sea
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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?
Yes. The chord progression works on acoustic guitar, electric guitar and keyboard. Adapt the voicings to your instrument and level.