Melanie Safka - Good King Wenceslaus Chords

## NOTE: The Intro, Outro and verse Lead-in is a combination of C and Cadd9 ##


CAPO: 2nd Fret


INTRO: C  
                       
Good King Wenceslaus looked out
F               C 
On the feast of Stephen
                   
When the snow lay 'round about 
F                  C 
Deep and crisp and even
                   Am              
Brightly shone the moon that night 
F                    C 
Though the frost was cruel
       Am       F       G            
When a poor man came in sight
C                F    C
Gathering winter fu-u-el



"Hither, page, and stand by me
F                   C 
If thou knowest it, telling

Yonder peasant, who is he?
F                  C 
Where and what his dwelling?"
                  Am              
"Sire, he lives a good league hence
F              C 
Underneath the mountain
       Am       F      G            
Right against a forest fence
C               F       C
By Saint Agnes' fou-oun-tain"



"Bring me flesh, and bring me wine
F                  C 
Bring me pine logs hither

Thou and I shall see him dine
F                 C 
When we bear them thither"
                  Am              
Page and monarch, forth they went
F                 C 
Forth they went together
            Am          F      G            
Through the rude wind's wild lament
C              F      C
And the bitter wea-ea-ther



"Sire, the night is darker now
F                  C 
And the wind blows stronger

Fails my heart, I know not how
F           C 
I can go no longer"
                    Am              
"Mark my footsteps, my good page
F                  C 
Tread thou in them boldly
           Am       F        G            
Thou shalt find the winter's rage
C                     F      C
Freeze thy blood less co-old-ly"


Lead Break:   F  C    F  C   Am  F  C  Am  F  G  C  F  C



In his master's steps he trod
F                  C 
Where the snow lay dinted

Heat was in the very sod
F                   C 
Which the saint had printed
                     Am              
Therefore, Christian men, be sure
F                 C 
Wealth or rank possessing
       Am       F         G            
Ye who now will bless the poor
C                     F      C
Shall yourselves find ble-es-sing