Kate Rusby – Bonnie Bairns (Guitar)

Am     G/E     F          C
A lady walked in yon wild wood,

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Beneath the holly tree,

        Am       G/E    F          C
It was there she saw two bonnie bairns,

         G            F
There running at her knee.

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And the first she pulled a red, red rose,

        C     G         F
With hands as soft as silk,

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And the next she pulled a lily pale,

        F        G              Am
With hands more white than milk.

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"Why Do you pull the Rose for the Bairns,

        G           F
And why the lily white?"

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"We need them at the seat of grace,

             G           F
For the soul of thee tonight."

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"Oh bide with me you bonnie bairns,

        C       G         F
I'll dress you rich and fine,

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And for all the blackbirds in the woods,

       F        G              Am
You'll eat white bread and wine."

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The stars were shooting to and fro,

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But the thorns she did abhor,

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As the lady followed the bonnie bairns,

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For three long hours and more.

        C       G          Am   G   F
"Where do you dwell you bonnie bairns,

    C       G         F
I'm woe and weary grown",

     F     G     Am  G/B  C   G
"We live where woe it never comes,

      F       G           Am
In a land to flesh unknown."

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They came unto a tree of beech,

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Two names carved in the bark,

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"Do you see your name carved here lady,

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The other lies in the dark."

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And she wept in vain and she wept full sore,

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For her love laid in the ground,

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And she wept until the stars gave way,

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'Til the dawn it brought no sound.