Misc Traditional – Are Ye Sleeping Maggie (Guitar)

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Chords

[Verse 1]
Em             D
Mirk and rainy is the night

       C                      Em
There' no' a staurn in a' the carry

                   D
Lightnings gleam a-thwart the lift

    C                        Em
And winds drive wi' winter's fury
[Chorus]
G
Oh, are ye sleeping, Maggie?

D
Oh, are ye sleeping, Maggie?

Em             G
Let me in, for loud the linn

   C                        Em
Is roarin' o'er the warlock craigie
[Verse 2]
Em                 D
Fearfu' soughs the boortree bank

    C                          Em
The rifted wood roars wild and dreary.

              D
Loud the iron yett does clank,

    C                       Em
And cry of howlets makes me eerie.
[Chorus]
G
Oh, are ye sleeping, Maggie?

D
Oh, are ye sleeping, Maggie?

Em             G
Let me in, for loud the linn

   C                        Em
Is roarin' o'er the warlock craigie
[Verse 3]
 Em               D
Abune my breath I daurna speak

    C                          Em
For fear I rouse your waukrife daddie;

                   D
Cauld's the blast upon my cheek,

  C                    Em
O rise, rise my bonnie lady.
[Chorus]
G
Oh, are ye sleeping, Maggie?

D
Oh, are ye sleeping, Maggie?

Em             G
Let me in, for loud the linn

   C                        Em
Is roarin' o'er the warlock craigie
[Verse 4]
    Em                 D
She oped the door, she let him in

   C                        Em
He cuist aside his dreepin' plaidie.

                     D
'Blaw your warst, ye rain and win'

       C                   Em
Since, Maggie, now I'm in aside ye.
[Chorus]
G
Oh, are ye sleeping, Maggie?

D
Oh, are ye sleeping, Maggie?

Em             G
Let me in, for loud the linn

   C                        Em
Is roarin' o'er the warlock craigie
[Verse 5]
     Em                  D
Now, since ye're wauken, Maggie,

     C                   Em
Now, since ye're wauken, Maggie,

                D
What care I for howlet's cry,

    C                        Em
For boortree bank or warlock craigie.