{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1106424,"song":"Twa Corbies","artist":"Steeleye Span","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11246004-twa-corbies-chords-by-steeleye-span/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1106424?type=chord","rating":4.75878,"votes":42,"content":"One of my favourite songs. It features Maddy Prior on lead vocals and Gay Woods on \r\nbacking vocals. It was first recorded by them in 1970 for Hark! The Village Wait and then \r\nagain in 1995 as \"Corbies\" for their album Time.\r\n\r\n\r\nIntro:  [ch]Em[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAs I was walking all alane[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nI heard twa corbies makin' mane;[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd one ontae the other did say,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                        [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\n“Where shall we gang and dine the day[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                       [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWhere shall we gang and dine the day?”[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\n“In behind yon oul fail dyke[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nI wot there lies a new slain knight;[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd naebody kens that he lies there[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Em[/ch]                          [ch]D[/ch]   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nBut his hawk and his hound and his lady fair,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                              [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nHis hawk and his hound and his lady fair.”[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nHis hawk is tae the hunting gane,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                        [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nHis hound to fetch the wildfowl hane;[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nHis lady has taken another mate[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                   [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nSo we can make our dinner sweet,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWe can make our dinner sweet”[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]Em[/ch]\r\n“You can sit on his white breast bone[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd I'll pick out his bonny blue een;[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd with a lock of his yellow hair[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWe'll theek our nest when it grows bare,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWe'll theek our nest when it grows bare.”[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\n“And many's a one for him makes mane[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nNaebody kens where he has gane;[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThrough his white bones when they grow bare[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                      [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThe wind shall blow for evermare,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                      [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThe wind shall blow for evermare.”[/tab]","plain_text":"One of my favourite songs. It features Maddy Prior on lead vocals and Gay Woods on \nbacking vocals. It was first recorded by them in 1970 for Hark! The Village Wait and then \nagain in 1995 as \"Corbies\" for their album Time.\n\n\nIntro:  Em  D   Em","chords":["Em","D","G"],"chord_diagrams":{"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}