Alasdair Roberts - The Whole House Is Singing Chords

[Intro]
G  D  C  D  x4
 
[Verse]
      G            D             C               D
Oh, I know she rose early, for I heard her sweet singing
G       D        C         D
Echoing over the flowering heath
    G            D           C          D
She gathered the willow, the elder, the linden
    G          D         C  D    G
The holly, the ivy twined into a wreath
 
[Instrumental]
G  D  C  D  x2
 
[Verse]
        G             D          C          D
Oh, the notes you are forming, I long to possess them
     G              D            C           D
They leap from your tongue and ascend on the breeze
    G       D          C          D
Had I risen early from bed in the morning
     G           D            C    D      G
Then I would have hold of the notes you release
 
[Instrumental]
G  D  C  D
 
[Verse]
        G           D              C           D
And she gave me the wreath and she sang like a starling
   G         D             C        D
My fingers entwined in her feathery hair
        G            D              C         D
But she shrugged me away and said, "Alasdair, darling
       G             D         C     D      G
When a song's on the wind it belongs to the air"
 
[Instrumental]
G  D  C  D  x2
 
[Verse]
    G          D            C           D
See Polly, she sings as she sits at the spinning wheel
G         D            C              D
Mary, she sings as she skips with her rope
    G          D           C           D
And Johnny, he sings as he fetches the herring creel
    G         D           C     D        G
And Billy, he sings as he rolls down the slope
 
[Verse]
        G              D            C              D
And the whole house is singing, the whole house is singing
    G           D                C           D
The rafters are ringing, and the timbers are thrown
    G              D            C              D
The whole house is singing, the whole house is singing
    G     D              C   D         G
And I overhear them, and this is their song
 
[Interlude]
D    G   C D    G   C D
        G                         C       D
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[Verse]
       G                           C       D
We are stronger when the moon glows in the sky
        G                      C         D
And the moon causes the tide to rise and rise
        G                    C        D
And the weed carried upon the drawing foam
        G                   C      D
We will gather to bedeck our happy home
 
[Outro]
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