Bert Jansch – Black Water Side (Guitar)

Capo 4
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Chords

[Intro] D G G D G D G D G [Verse 1]
Dm D
  One morning fair, I took the air

         G          D   G
Down by black waterside

D       G      D    G     D G
Was in gazing all around me

      D           Dm  D
The Irish lad I spied
G D [Verse 2]
D
All through the fair part of that night

        G  D         G
We lay in sport and play

  D   G              D         G        D          G Dm
'Til this young man arose and gathered his clothes

 D  G                    D     G Dm D G D G Dm
Saying, "Fare thee well today"
[Instrumental] D G x6 Dm [Verse 3]
 D
"That's not the promise that you gave to me

    Dm          D   G       D     G
When you still lay upon my breast

    D    G              D              G     D     G
For you had made me believe with your lying tongue

 D    G      D
That the sun rose in the west"
[Verse 4]
 Dm   D G Dm D
"Well         then go home to your father's garden

         G        D       G
Go home and weep your fill

D G               D G
 And think on your misfortune

D                    G   D        Dm D G D      D
That you've wrought with your want         and will"
[Outro]
Dm D
  One morning fair, I took the air

         G          D   G
Down by black waterside

D       G      D    G     D G
Was in gazing all around me

      D           Dm  D
The Irish lad I spied