Misc Traditional – Six Dukes Went A Fishing (Guitar)

G   C     G
Six dukes went a-fishing,

     C           D
Down by yon sea-side,

        C                 G
One of them spied a dead body,

     D        G
Lain by the waterside.

G    C   G
The one said to the other,

       C                 D
These words I heard them say,

           C              G
"It's the royal Duke of Grantham,

      D             G
That the tide has washed away."

G     C    G
They took him up to Portsmouth,

      C              D
To a place where was known,

G     C     G
From there up to London,

    D                  G
To the place where he was born.

G     C   G
They took out his bowels,

      C                D
And stretched out his feet,

G    C    G
And they balmed his body,

      D       G
With roses so sweet.

G    C     G
Six dukes stood before him,

        C                   D
Twelve raised him from the ground,

G     C    G
Nine lords followed after him,

     D            G
In their black mourning gown.

G      C    G
Black was their mourning,

      C             D
And white were the wands,

G    C   G
And so yellow were the flamboys,

      D                G
That they carried in their hands.

G    C   G
Now he lies betwixt two towers,

     C               D
He now lies in cold clay,

G    C   G
And the Royal Queen of Grantham,

      D       G
Went weeping away.