Tonart: D minor
Verse 1
Am
Young Bill Norrie's a fine lad,
and he lives like the wind
Dm
Am
His eyes shine like the silver
Dm
Am
or golden morning sun
Oh friend John, oh dear John,
do you see what I see?
Dm
Am
You understand the first woman
Dm
Am
that ever loved me
And here's a clover, clover, John
F
Am
It's lined with sil ver grey
Dm
Give it to her and tell her
Am
Dm
Am
To come to her young Billy
And here's a ring, a ring, John
F
Am
It's all gold but the stone
Dm
Am
Dm
Give it to her and tell her
C
Dm
Am
To ask for leave of none
C
Am
Oh, Billy, oh, dear Billy
Dm
You know my love for thee
I'll not go to nobody
F
Em
Am
To steal their wife away
Oh, friend John, oh, dear John
F
Am
Swim not against the tide
F
Dm
C
Be with me in the stream, John,
Em
Am
for I will be your bait
John ran down to the high house,
F
Dm
Em
he rang low at the door
Am
Dm
F
Who was there but this woman
Dm
Em
Am
to let young Johnny in?
Here's a glove, a glove lady,
F
C
it's lined with silver grey
Dm
Am
It bids you come to the green wood,
F
Am
to meet your young Billy
C
And here's a ring, a ring lady,
F
C
all gold but the stone
Dm
Am
C
It bids you come to the green wood
Em
G
Bm
Am
and ask for leave of none
Husband stood in the shadow,
F
C
an angry man was he
Dm
F
I never thought the man lived,
G
my love loved more than me
Am
So he's gone down to her room
Dm
C
and dressed in her array
F
Am
And like some woman he's gone down
Em
E
Am
to find this young Billy
Billy sat in the green wood,
F
C
he whistled and he sang
Dm
F
Yonder comes the woman
G
that I have loved so long
Em
Dm
C
Billy ran down and down there
F
Am
to meet her when she came
G
F
Oh, the sight that he saw,
G
Em
his heart grew still as stone
Dm
Am
Husband he had a long knife,
Bm
F
it hung down by his knee
Dm
F
He took the head of young Billy,
Em
Am
F
Am
off his fair body
G
F
Am
Dm
Am
He's run home and home there
And down into his home
Tossed Billy's head to her
G
Am
Em
Crying, lady, catch the ball
Am
C
Em
And she's taken up
F
Em
the hat there,
G
Dm
Am
Dm
she's kissed it cheek and chin
C
F
I love better this hat,
Dm
D
Am
than all my kith and kin
She's taken up the hat there,
and hooked it to her womb
F
C
I was once full of this boy,
Dm
Am
as the plum is full of the stone
C
When I was in my dad's house,
F
Am
F
Am
in my vir ginity
C
F
Dm
A young man came to my room,
G
Am
and we got young believe
I loved him in my room in
F
Dm
C
secrecy and shame
Am
Dm
G
I loved him in the green wood
C
G
Am
all out in wind and rain
C
Am
I will kiss his sweet head and
Dm
F
Am
I will kiss
C
F
Am
Em
And I will vow to stay true,
Am
G
Am
an air -loved man again
F
When up and spoke the husband,
Em
F
Had I known he was your son,
Dm
C
he would not have been killed by me
G
Am
If I'd have known he was your son,
Em
Am
he would not have been killed by me.
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