Clyde Waters (child 216) Uke tab by Anaïs Mitchell (Baritone Chords)

3 Chords used in the song: C, F, G7

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Key: C, AmChords
C C                          F F
Willie sits in his stable door

C C F F C C
And he's combing his coal-black steed,

C C F F
And he's doubting on fair Margaret's love

C C G7 G7 C C
And his heart began to bleed.

C C F F
“Give corn unto my horse, mother,

C C F F G7 G7
And meat to my man John,

C C F F C C F F
And I'll away to fair Margaret's bower

C C G7 G7 C C
Before the night comes on.”


C C F F
"Oh stay at home with me, dear Willie,

C C F F C C
Oh stay at home with me,

C C F F
And the very best cock in all the roost

C C G7 G7 C C
Your own supper shall be."

C C F F
"It's all your cocks in all your roosts

C C F F G7 G7
I value not a pin,

C C F F C C F F
But I'll away to fair Margaret's bower

C C G7 G7 C C
Before the night sets in.”


C C F F
"If you go to fair Margaret's bower

C C F F C C
Without the leave of me,

C C F F
In the deepest part of the Clyde water

C C G7 G7 C C
Then drowned you shall be."

C C F F
"Oh the good steed that I ride upon

C C F F G7 G7
Cost me thrice thirty pounds,

C C F F C C F F
And I'll put trust in his swift feet

C C G7 G7 C C
To take me safe and sound."


C C F F
He's ridden o'er the high, high hills

C C F F C C
And he's down the dowy den,

C C F F
And the noise that was in the Clyde water

C C G7 G7 C C
Would have feared five hundred men,"

C C F F
"O roaring Clyde, you roar so loud

C C F F G7 G7
Your streams are wondrous strong,

C C F F C C F F
Make me a wreck as I come back

C C G7 G7 C C
But spare me as I'm going."


C C F F
Oh when he's got to fair Margaret's bower,

C C F F C C
He's turled low on the pin.

C C F F
"Oh wake up, me May Margaret,

C C G7 G7 C C
Rise up and let me in."

C C F F
"Oh who is this at my bower door,

C C F F G7 G7
Calling May Margaret's name?"

C C F F C C F F
"It's only your first love, little William,

C C G7 G7 C C
This night come to her home."


C C F F
"Open up your gates this night,

C C F F C C
Open and let me in,

C C F F
For me boots they are full of the Clyde water


C C G7 G7 C C
And I'm frozen to the skin."

C C F F
"Me barns are full of corn, Willie,

C C F F G7 G7
And the stable's full of hay,

C C F F C C F F
And me bower's full of gentle-men -

C C G7 G7 C C
They'll not remove till day."

C C F F
"Then it's fare thee well to you, May Margaret,

C C F F C C
And it's fare thee well and adieu,

C C F F
For I have won my mother's own curse

C C G7 G7 C C
In coming this night to you."

C C F F
And as he's ridden o'er the high, high hill

C C F F G7 G7
And down yon dowy den,

C C F F C C F F
And the rushing in the Clyde wa-ter

C C G7 G7 C C
Took Willie's cane from him.

C C F F
And he's leaned him over his saddle-bow

C C F F C C
To catch his cane again,

C C F F
And the rushing in the Clyde water

C C G7 G7 C C
Took Willie's hat from him.

C C F F
And he's leaned him o’er his saddle-bow

C C F F G7 G7
To catch his hat by force,

C C F F C C F F
But the rushing in the Clyde wa-ter

C C G7 G7 C C
Took Willie from his horse.


C C F F
And the very hour that young man sank

C C F F C C
Into the parts so deep,

C C F F
There up and awoke this May Margaret

C C G7 G7 C C
Out from her drowsy sleep.

C C F F
"Come here, come here, my mother dear,

C C F F G7 G7
And you read my dreary dream.

C C F F C C F F
I dreamed my lover was at our gates

C C G7 G7 C C
And nobody let him in."



C C F F
"Lie down, lie down, you May Margaret,

C C F F C C
Lie down and take your rest.

C C F F
For since your lover was at our gates

C C G7 G7 C C
It's but two quarters passed."

C C F F
Then nimbly, nimbly rose she up,

C C F F G7 G7
And went down to the river's brim,

C C F F C C F F
And the louder that this lady cried,

C C G7 G7 C C
The louder grew the wind.


C C F F
And the very first step that she went in,

C C F F C C
She stepped up to her feet,

C C F F
And it's "oh" and "alas," this lady cried,

C C G7 G7 C C
"The water's wondrous deep."

C C F F
And the very next step that she went in,

C C F F G7 G7
She's waded to her knee.

C C F F C C F F
Says she, "I would wade farther in

C C G7 G7 C C
If I my true love I could see."


C C F F
And the very next step that she went in,

C C F F C C
She's waded to her chin.

C C F F
And in the deepest part of Clyde water

C C G7 G7 C C
She found sweet William in.

C C F F
Saying, " You have had a cruel mother, Willie,

C C F F G7 G7
And I have had another.

C C F F C C F F
And now we'll sleep in Clyde wa-ter

C C G7 G7 C C
Like sister and like brother."

Uke tab by , 25 Mar 2020

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