Misc Traditional – Henry Lee (Guitar)

Capo 3
Key
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Chords

[Verse]
     Am        Em         Am   Em       Am       Em      F
Lie down, lie down, love Henry Lee and stay with me this night

Am               F                    Em
You will have my candle and coal, my fire's burnin' bright

                  Am
My fire's burnin' bright

   Am        Em      Am        Em       Am       Em         F
I won't lie down, I can't lie down, and stay all night with thee

          Am             F                  Em
There's a lady ten times fairer than you in Barnard's Hall for me

                      Am
In Barnard's Hall for me

      Am     Em        Am     Em      Am        Em       F
He's leanin' o'er her soft pillow to give her a kiss so sweet

         Am                    F                    Em
But her little pen knife held keen and sharp, she's wounded him full deep

                       Am
She's wounded him full deep

     Am        Em      Am      Em       Am     Em      F
Oh I will lie down, I must lie down, I welcome it said he

Am                 F                     Em
There's no lady in Barnard's Hall that I love better than thee

                         Am
I love more better than thee

     Am      Em     Am          Em        Am          Em     F
She took him by his long yellow hair, she dragged him by his feet,

    Am                 F                  Em
She threw him down a cold dark well some fifty fathoms deep

                     Am
A full fifty fathoms deep

     Am       Em        Am            Em        Am    Em      F
Lie down, lie down, you pretty little bird, lie down along my knee

    Am                        F                   Em
No one who would murder their own true love would kill a little bird like me

                              Am
Would kill a little bird like me

Am    Em        Am      Em        Am    Em       F
Cupid with your bending bow, your arrow and your string

    Am                  F                      Em
I'd shoot my doll right through her heart so she no longer sings

                  Am
So she no longer sings

   Am      Em       Am      Em        Am    Em       F
I wish you had your bending bow, Your arrow and your string!

    Am             F                     Em
I'd fly on back to Barnard's Hall, you'd always hear me sing

                     Am
You'd always hear me sing!

    Am             F                     Em
I'd fly on back to Barnard's Hall, you'd always hear me sing

                     Am
You'd always hear me sing!