Steeleye Span – Mackerel Of The Sea (Guitar Solo Tab)

C
When I was seven year old

   Gm
My mother did die,

   C
My father married the worst woman

    Gm
The world did ever see.

    C
She turned me to a loathsome worm

   Gm
To lie at the foot of the tree,

   Bb
My sister Maisery she made

    F               Eb
The mackerel of the sea.

     C
This father stood on the shore

    Gm
And hearing sore complaint,

    C
And wondered at the laily moan

    Gm
And questioned what it meant.

      C
“Sing on your song you laily worm

     Gm
That you now sing to me,

    Bb
For my two children have been gone

     F        Eb
This many year from me.”

G          Cm
Every Saturday at noon

    Bb       D        Eb
The mackerel comes to me,

F            Cm    Bb      Gm
Changed back to my sister,

    Eb        D
The Lady Maisery.

Cm      Bb       F     Gm
And she takes my laily head

    Ab      Bb     F
And lays it on her knee,

    G               Cm
And combs it with a silver comb

   Bb      D      Eb
To wash it in the sea.

 C
“Seven knights I have slain

     Gm
As I lay at the foot of the tree,

    C
And if you weren’t my own father

    Gm
The eighth one you would be.

 C
“For it was your own wife

     Gm
Tied me to the foot of the tree,

    Bb
And turned the lovely Maisery

       F               Eb
To the mackerel of the sea.”

    C
The father sent for his own wife

   Gm
As fast as send could he,

 Bb
“Where is the son you sent from me

       F         Eb
And my daughter, Maisery?”

 C
“Why cry out so loudly

    Gm
And try to worry me?

     C
Your son is at our king’s court

Gm
Serving for meat and fee.

         Bb
And your daughter, at our queen’s court

F              Eb
Learning courtesy.”

     C
“You lie, you lie, you ill woman"

   Gm
So loud I hear you lie!

   C
My son he is the loathsome worm

     Gm
That lies at the foot of the tree,

       Bb
And my daughter Maisery

       F               Eb
Is the mackerel of the sea.”

G          Cm
Every Saturday at noon

    Bb       D        Eb
The mackerel comes to me,

F            Cm    Bb      Gm
Changed back to my sister,

    Eb        D
The Lady Maisery.

Cm      Bb       F     Gm
And she takes my laily head

    Ab      Bb     F
And lays it on her knee,

    G               Cm
And combs it with a silver comb

   Bb      D      Eb
To wash it in the sea.

Fm      Eb      Gm     F
She has taken a silver wand

Dm         Cm       Bb      Ab
   And she gave him strokes three,

    Ab     Eb       Cm      Bb
The worm became the bravest knight

Ab                         Fm   Cm  Eb
   That ever your eyes did see.

Fm      Eb      Gm     F
She has taken a golden horn

Dm Cm       Bb         Ab
   Loud and shrill she blew,

    Ab      Eb        Cm      Bb
And all the fish soon swam to her

Ab                             Fm   Cm  Eb
   But not the mackerel of the sea.

     Fm        Eb         Gm     F
“You shaped me once, an unseemly shape,

Dm        Cm    Bb         Ab
   You’ll never more shape me!”

    Ab       Eb        Cm        Bb
And away she swam from that cold shore

Ab              Fm
   And was lost forever.

G          Cm
Every Saturday at noon

    Bb       D        Eb
The mackerel comes to me,

F            Cm    Bb      Gm
Changed back to my sister,

    Eb        D
The Lady Maisery.

Cm      Bb       F     Gm
And she takes my laily head

    Ab      Bb     F
And lays it on her knee,

    G               Cm
And combs it with a silver comb

   Bb      D      Eb
To wash it in the sea.