Steeleye Span – The Wife Of Ushers Well (Guitar)

                      Em           C
There lived a wife in Usher's Well

          E/B      Am
A wealthy wife was she

    D                   G        Em
She had three stout and stalwart sons

    C                  D    C
And sent them o'er the sea

         D             C       D
They had not been from Usher's Well

  G        C      D    C
A week but barely one

          D            C       D
When word came to this carline wife

     G         C         D    G  C  D
That her three sons were gone

            C  G              D
"I wish the wind... may never cease

            C      D
Nor flashes in the flood

              Dm             C
Till my three sons return to me

   D       C         D      C
In earthly flesh and blood

D             C   D       G
Earthly flesh and blood"

                  Em         C
It fell about the Martinmas

           E/B           Am
The nights were long and dark

      D                 G       Em
Three sons came home to Usher's Well

      C                 D     C
Their hats were made of bark

             D       C      D
That neither grew in forest green

       G   C      D     C
Nor on any wooded rise

             D          C      D
But from the north side of the tree

     G        C   D    G  C  D
That grows in Paradise

             C  G                     D
"Blow up the fire..., my merry, merry maidens

            C        D
Bring water from the well

           Dm                     C
For all my house shall feast this night

      D        C        D     C
Since my three sons are well

D             C   D
My three sons are well"

                       Em              C
Then up and crowed the blood red cock

           E/B        Am
And up and crowed the grey

    D             G        Em
The oldest to the youngest said

      C             D
"It's time we were away"

         C         D            C        D
"For the cock does crow and the day doth show

        G          C         D      C
And the channering worm doth chide

            D       C       D
And we must go from Usher's Well

       G        C   D    G  C  D
To the gates of Paradise"

            C  G              D
"I wish the wind... may never cease

            C      D
Nor flashes in the flood

              Dm             C
Till my three sons return to me

   D       C         D      C
In earthly flesh and blood

D             C   D
Earthly flesh and blood"