June Tabor - Bonny May Chords

[Intro]
B   E   F#   B    F# B

[Verse]
B
Bonny May, a-shepherding has gone
   E                     F#
To call the sheep to the fold
    B                               E
And as she sang, her bonny voice it rang
      F#                          B
Right over the tops of the downs, downs
      F#
Right over the tops of the downs

[Verse]
      B
There came a troop of gentlemen
   E                F#
As they were riding by
    B                       E
And one of them has lighted down
         F#                    B
And he's asked of her the way, way
         F#
And he's asked of her the way

[Verse]
      B
"Ride on, ride on, you rank riders
     E                    F#
Your steeds are stout and strong
         B                          E
For it's out of the fold I will not go
    F#                    B
For fear you do me wrong, wrong
    F#
For fear you do me wrong."

[Verse]
         B
Now he's taken her by the middle jimp
    E                 F#
And by the green gown sleeve
    B                          E
And there he's had his will of her
         F#                     B
And he's asked of her no leave, leave
         F#
And he's asked of her no leave

[Verse]
         B
Now he's mounted on his berry brown steed
   E                  F#
He soon o'erta'en his men
    B                        E
And one and all cried out to him
     F#                        B
"Oh, master, you tarried long, long
    F#
Oh, master, you tarried long."

[Verse]
     B
"Oh, I've ridden East and I've ridden West
    E                    F#
And I've ridden o'er the downs
        B                         E
But the bonniest lass that ever I saw
        F#                             B     F#
She was calling her sheep to the fold, fold

[Verse]
      B
She's taken the milk-pail on her head
    E                    F#
And she's gone lingering home
    B                      E
And all her father said to her
      F#                          B
Was, "Daughter, you tarried long, long
    F#
Oh, daughter, you tarried long."

[Verse]
     B
"Oh, woe be to your shepherd, father
   E                    F#
He takes no care of the sheep
         B                                   E
For he's builded the fold at the back of the down
        F#                     B
And the fox has frightened me, me
        F#
And the fox has frightened me."

[Verse]
           B
"Oh, there came a fox to the fold door
     E                F#
With twinkling eye so bold
    B                               E
And ere he'd taken the lamb that he did
    F#                          B     F#
I'd rather he'd taken them all, all."

[Verse]
    B
Now twenty weeks were gone and past
E                F#
Twenty weeks and three
    B                           E
The lassie began to fret and to frown
       F#                                 B
And to long for the twinkling eye, bright eye
       F#
And to long for the twinkling eye

[Instrumental]
B    E  F# B    E  F#   B  F#

[Verse]
       B
Now it fell on a day, on a bonny summer's day
     E               F#
That she walked out alone
     B                        E
That self-same troop of gentlemen
       F#                    B
Come a-riding over the down, down
       F#
Come a-riding over the down

[Verse]
     B
"Who got the babe with thee, bonny May
    E                   F#
Who got the babe in thy arms?"
    B                              E
For shame, she blushed, and a' she said
      F#                         B     F#
Was, "I've a good man of my own, own."

[Verse]
     B
"You lie, you lie, you bonny, bonny May
   E               F#
So loud I hear you lie
  B                      E
Remember the misty murky night
  F#                         B
I lay in the fold with thee, thee
  F#
I lay in the fold with thee"


[Verse]
         B
Now he's mounted off his berry brown steed
     E                F#
He's sat the fair May on
    B                              E
"Go call out your kye, father, yourself
       F#                      B
She'll ne'er call them again, again
       F#
She'll ne'er call them again."

[Verse]
         B
Oh, he's Lord of twenty plough of land
E                 F#
Twenty plough and three
         B                       E
And he's taken away the bonniest lass
   F#                         B
In all the South country, country
   F#
In all the South country