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Tam Lin Chords

(ver. 1)
Fairport Convention
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Em    D               G  Em       D                Em
I forbid you maidens   all  that wear gold in your hair
Em        D  G       Em      D Dsus4 Dsus2 D  Em 
To travel to Carterhaugh for young Tam Lin is there
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Em        D     G       Em      D                Em 
None that go by Carterhaugh but they leave him a pledge
Em     D                 G  Em      D Dsus4 Dsus2 D   Em
Either their mantles of  green  or else their maiden head
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Em    D              G   Em    D             Em 
Janet tied her kirtle green  a bit above her knee 
Em        D       G       Em     D Dsus4 Dsus2 D   Em 
And she's gone to Carterhaugh as fast as   go can  she
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Em        D               G  Em   D             Em 
She'd not pulled a double rose, a rose but only two
Em            D          G    Em        D Dsus4 Dsus2 D  Em 
When up there came young Tam Lin, says -Lady,  pull   no more-
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Em       D           G       Em          D            Em 
"And why come you to Carterhaugh without command from me-"
Em             D                G  Em      D Dsus4 Dsus2 D  Em 
"I'll come and go", young Janet said, "and ask no leave of  thee-
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Em    D               G  Em   D             Em 
Janet tied her kirtle green a bit above her knee
Em        D            G  Em     D Dsus4 Dsus2 D  Em 
And she's gone to her father as  fast as go   can she
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Em            D                G  Em       D              Em 
Well, up then spoke her father dear and he spoke meek and mild
Em       D                  G  Em     D Dsus4 Dsus2 D    Em 
"Oh, and alas, Janet,- he   said,   "I think you go with child-
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Em                D         G  Em   D                     Em 
"Well, if that be so," Janet said, "myself shall bear the blame
Em            D                 G  Em       D Dsus4 Dsus2 D  Em 
There's not a knight in all your hall shall get the  baby's  name-
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Em        D                    G  Em     D              Em 
For if my love were an earthly knight as he is an elfin grey
Em      D                  G  Em    D Dsus4 Dsus2 D  Em 
I'd not change my own true love for any  knight  you have-
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Em    D               G  Em   D             Em 
Janet tied her kirtle green a bit above her knee
Em        D       G       Em     D Dsus4 Dsus2 D  Em 
And she's gone to Carterhaugh as fast as go can   she
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Em           D                G  Em   D                    Em 
"Oh, tell to me, Tam Lin," she said, "why came you here to dwell--
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"The Queen of Faeries caught me     when from my horse I fell
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Em         D            G  Em     D               Em 
And at the end of seven years she pays a tithe to Hell
Em    D               G  Em     D Dsus4 Dsus2 D   Em 
I so fair and full of flesh and feared   it   be  myself
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Em  D              G   Em         D           Em 
But tonight is Hallowe'en and the faerie folk ride
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Those that would their true love win at Miles Cross they must  hide
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Em        D               G  Em     D                 Em 
First let past the horses black and then let past the brown
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Quickly run to the white steed and pull the  rider  down
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Em       D                 G  Em      D              Em 
For I'll ride on the white steed, the nearest to the town
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For I was an earthly knight, they give   me  that  renown
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Em            D               G  Em     D         Em 
Oh, they will turn me in your arms to a newt or a snake
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But hold me tight and fear not, I   am your  baby-s  father
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Em            D              G  Em  D           Em 
And they will turn me in your arms  into a lion bold
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But hold me tight and fear not   and you will love your child
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Em            D               G  Em     D       Em 
And they will turn me in your arms into a naked knight
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But cloak me in your mantle and keep  me out of  sight-
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Em     D              G  Em      D                Em 
In the middle of the  night she  heard the bridle ring
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She heeded what he did   say   and young Tam Lin did win
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Em      D                G  Em     D               Em 
Then up spoke the Faerie Queen, an angry queen was she
Em      D                 G  Em     D Dsus4 Dsus2 D    Em 
"Woe betide her ill-fought face, an I'll death may she die-
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Em         D                   G  Em        D                Em 
"Oh, had I known, Tam Lin," she said, "what this night I did see
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I have looked him in the eyes and turn  him to a   tree
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