Misc Traditional – A Maid In Bedlam (Guitar)

Dm                                  Am     Dm
Abroad as I was walking one evening in the spring

                            G              Dm
I heard a maid in Bedlam so sweetly for to sing

                       Am
Her chains she rattled on her hands 

    Dm           C
and thus replied she, 

   Dm                                  Am    Dm
"I love my love because I know my love loves me"

   Dm                                 Am     Dm
Oh cruel were his parents who sent my love to sea

                                    G                 Dm
And cruel was the sailing ship that bore my love from me

                       Am
Yet I love his parents since they're his 

  Dm                    C
Although they've ruined me

  Dm                                  Am    Dm
I love my love because I know my love loves me

     Dm                                        Am       Dm
With straw I'll weave a garland, I'll weave it wondrous fine

                                 G            Dm
With roses, lilies, daisies I'll mix the eglantine

                    Am                    
And I'll present it to my love

     Dm              C
When he returns from sea

  Dm                                  Am    Dm
I love my love because I know my love loves me

     Dm                                     Am      Dm
Just as she sat there weeping, her love, he came on land

                                  G                   Dm
Then hearing she was in Bedlam he ran straight out of hand

                 Am
He flew into her snow-white arms, 

    Dm           C
And thus replied he,

   Dm                                  Am    Dm
"I love my love because I know my love loves me"

    Dm                                            Am      Dm
She said, "My love, don't frighten me, are you my love or no?"

                             G              Dm
"Oh yes, my dearest Nancy, I am your love also

                 Am
I am returned to make amends 

    Dm           C
For all your injury

  Dm                                  Am    Dm
I love my love because I know my love loves me

  Dm                                  Am    Dm
I love my love because I know my love loves me"