Steeleye Span – Marigold - Harvest Home (Guitar)

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Chords

[Intro] G [Verse]
             D              A
When the marigold no longer blooms

             C               G
When summer sun is turned to gloom

Bm                      A
See the forecast winter snows

C                      A
See the evergreen that lonely grows
[Verse]
G                     A
Move close to the fireplace

               G
Neglect the garden

                  A
See the ground harden

             G
At a ghostly place
[Verse]
                  D             A
The golden summer sun is silver now

              C               G
The fruit has fallen from the bough

    Bm                       A
The season moves to chestnut time

C                      A
Toffee apples, treacle and mulled wine
[Verse]
G                            A
Quilts and furs and woollens gay

                G
You wrap around you

                       A
But the cold confounds you

             G
On an autumn day
[Verse]
                     D                   A
Stout and strong the walls of hearth and home

             C                 G
The curtains drawn against the draft

    Bm                             A
The rake has reaped, the blade has mown

C                          A
Nights draw in to call the harvest home
[Verse]
    G                   A
The quiet of a heart at rest

              G
In peace abounded

               A
By love surrounded

                 G
Here the home is blest
[Verse]
         A    G/B     A   D
Come, ye thankful people, come

          A    G     A    D
Raise the song of harvest home

       G      A        D
All be safely gathered in

    E   A             Bm A
Ere the winter storms begin
[Verse]
               D    A  D
God, our maker doth provide

                 G     Em
For our wants to be supplied

              A   D       Bm
Come, ye thankful people, come

G         D    G  D  A    Bm
Raise the song of harvest home

G     A   D
Raise the song (Raise the song}

G     A   D    G  D  A    D
Raise the song of harvest home