Willies Lady Child 6 Chords

[Intro]
D G
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D G
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C
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C
D G
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[Verse 1]
             D                         G
King Willie, he sailed over the raging foam
              D            G           D
He's wooed a wife and he's brought her home
                 D                             G
He's brought her home all against his mother's will
           D             G      D
His mother wrought her a wicked spell
             C
And a wicked spell she's laid on her
              D                             G
She'd be with child for long and many's the year
        D                G    D
But the child she would never bear
           C
And in her bower she lies in pain
            D                       G
King Willie by her bedside he would stand
            D             G        D
As down his cheeks sodden tears do run
 
[Instrumental]
D G
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D G
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[Verse 2]
             D                         G
King Willie, back to his mother he did run
              D          G       D
And he's gone there as a beggin' son
                   D                    G
Says "My true love has this fine, noble steed
             D              G     D
The likes of which you have never seen
             C
And at every part of this horse's mane
                D                      G
There's hangin' fifty silver bells and ten
        D     G         D
Hangin' fifty bells and ten
            C
This goodly gift shall be your own
              D                         G
If back to my own true love you'll turn again
             D        G    D
So she might bear her baby son"
 
[Verse 3]
          D                          G
"O of the child she'll never lighter be
            D              G       D
Nor from my curse will she e'er be free
             D                        G
But she will die and she will turn to clay
             D        G       D
And you will wed with another maid"
             C
And sighing, says this weary man
               D                       G
As back to his own true love he's gone again:
           D        G     D
"I wish my life was at an end"
 
[Instrumental]
D G
D G D
D G
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[Verse 4]
            D                         G
King Willie back to his mother he did run
              D          G       G
And he's gone there as a beggin' son
                   D                     G
Says "My true love has this fine, golden girdle
         D          G         D
Set with jewels all about the middle
             C
And at every part of this girdle's hem
                D                      G
There's hangin' fifty silver bells and ten
        D     G         D
Hangin' fifty bells and ten
            C
This goodly gift shall be your own
              D                         G
If back to my own true love you'll turn again
             D        G    D
So she might bear her baby son
 
[Verse 5]
          D                          G
"O of the child she'll never lighter be
            D              G       D
Nor from my curse will she e'er be free
             D                        G
But she will die and she will turn to clay
             D        G       D
And you will wed with another maid"
             C
And sighing, says this weary man
               D                       G
As back to his own true love he's gone again:
           D        G     D
"I wish my life was at an end"
 
           C
And up and spoke his noble Queen
            D                     G
And she has told King Willie of a plan
              D        G    D
How she might bear her baby son
 
[Instrumental]
D G
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D G
D G D
C
D G
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C
D G
D G D
 
[Verse 6]
               D                            G
Says "You must go get you down to the marketplace
             D     G       D
And you must buy a ball of wax
             D                             G
And you must shape it as a babe that is to nurse
             D        G       D
And you must make two eyes of glass
             C
And ask your mother to the christening day
             D                            G
And you must stand there close as you can be
             D         G        D
So you might hear what she does say
 
[Verse 7]
             D                     G
King Willie, he's gone down to the marketplace
       D        G       D
He has bought a ball of wax
           D                              G
And he has shaped it as a babe that is to nurse
           D        G       D
And he has made two eyes of glass
             C
He asked his mother to the christening day
           D                             G
And he has stood there close as he could be
            D         G       D
So he might hear what she did say
            C
And how she spat and how she swore
              D                           G
She spied the babe where no babe could be before
              D                     G    D
She spied the babe where none could be before
 
[Instrumental]
D G
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D G
D G D
C
D G
D G D
C
D G
D G D
 
[Verse 8]
              D                           G
Says "Who was it who undid the nine witch knots
        D               G      D
Braided in amongst this lady's locks?
           D          G            D
And who is it who the leather shoe untied
         D                        G
From the left foot of this wedded bride?
            C
And who was it split the silken thread
           D                                 G
The spider stretched all beneath this lady's bed
           D               G         D
The spider stretched all beneath her bed?"
 
[Verse 9]
           D                               G
And it was Willie who undid the nine witch knots
        D               G      D
Braided in amongst this lady's locks
           D                           G
And it was Willie who the leather shoe untied
         D                 G      D
From the left foot of this wedded bride
           C
And it was Willie split the silken thread
           D                                 G
The spider stretched all beneath this lady's bed
           D               G         D
The spider stretched all beneath her bed
 
[Outro]
            C
And she has borne him a baby son
                  D                      G
And great are the blessings that be them upon
              D         G    D
Great are the blessings them upon
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