Steeleye Span – Sir James The Rose (Guitar)

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Oh, have you heard Sir James the Rose

    D
The young heir of Loch Laggan

    Am              Em
For he has killed a gallant squire

        C                  D
And his friends are out to take him

    G
And he's gone to the House of Marr

    D
The Nurse there did befriend him

    Am           Em
And he has gone upon his knees

    C                 D
And begged for her to hide him

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"Where're you going, Sir James?" she said

 G
"Where now are you riding?"

     C    G           C
"Oh, I am bound for a foreign land

    G       D     G
But now I'm under hiding"

 C             G   C             G
"Where shall I go? Where shall I run?

C             G         D
Where shall I go for to hide me?

C   G      D        G       C   Am
For I have killed a gallant squire

            G       D      C    G/B Am G
And they're seeking for to slay me"

        G
Then he turned him right and round about

    D
And rolled him in the bracken

    Am             Em
And he has gone to take a sleep

       C                D
In the lowlands of Loch Laggan

   G
He had not well gone out of sight

    D
Nor was he past Milstrethen

     Am              Em
When four-and-twenty belted knights

     C               D
Came riding o'er the leathen

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"Have you seen Sir James the Rose

    G
The young heir of Loch Laggan

    C      G        C
For he has killed a gallant squire

    G          D      G
And we're sent out to take him"

 C             G   C             G
"Where shall I go? Where shall I run?

C             G         D
Where shall I go for to hide me?

C   G      D        G       C   Am
For I have killed a gallant squire

            G       D      C    G/B Am G
And they're seeking for to slay me"

        G
"You'll see the bank above the mill

       D
In the lowlands of Loch Laggan

    Am                    Em
And there you'll find Sir James the Rose

C               D
Sleeping in the bracken"

     G
"You must not wake him out of sleep

    D
Nor yet must you afright him

     Am               Em
Just run a dart right through his heart

    C                D
And through the body pierce him"

     G                C        G
They sought the bank above the mill

       G
In the lowlands of Loch Laggan

    C          G         C
And there they found Sir James the Rose

G        D      G
Sleeping in the bracken

 C             G   C             G
"Where shall I go? Where shall I run?

C             G         D
Where shall I go for to hide me?

C   G      D        G       C   Am
For I have killed a gallant squire

            G       D      C    G/B Am G
And they're seeking for to slay me"

     G
Then up and spake Sir John the Graeme

    D
Who had the charge a-keeping

       Am                  Em
"It'll never be said, dear gentleman

   C                     D
We killed him while he's sleeping"

     G
They seized his broadsword and his targe

    D
And closely him surrounded

    Am               Em
And when he woke out of his sleep

    C              D
His senses were confounded

    G               C       G
Now they have taken out his heart

    G
And stuck it on a spear

     C       G      C
They took it to the House of Marr

    G       D      G
And gave it to his dear

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"Where shall I go? Where shall I run?

C             G         D
Where shall I go for to hide me?

C   G      D        G       C   Am
For I have killed a gallant squire

            G       D      C    G/B Am G
And they're seeking for to slay me"