{"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":1846257,"song":"Little Musgrave","artist":"Christy Moore","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11409009-little-musgrave-chords-by-christy-moore/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1846257?type=chord","rating":4.74825,"votes":28,"content":"[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIt fell upon a holy-day[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]             \r\nAs many in the year, [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nMusgrave to the church did go [/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nto see fine ladies there [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd some were dressed in velvet red [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nand some in velvet pale [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd then in came Lord Barnard's wife, [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe fairest among them all. [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nShe cast an eye on Little Musgrave, [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nfull bright as the summer sun; [/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSaid Musgrave unto himself [/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"This lady's heart have I won.\" [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI have loved you fair lady [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nfor long and many's the day [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nand I have loved you little Musgrave [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nthough never a word did say [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\n'I have a bower at Bucklesfordberry, [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt's me hearts delight [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI'll take you back there with me [/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIf you'll lie in my arms all night.' [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut standing by was a little footpage, [/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]     \r\nFrom the lady's coach he ran. [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]\r\n'Although I am my lady's page, [/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI am Lord Barnard's man. [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]\r\n'Lord Barnard shall know of this, [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhether I sink or swim;' [/tab]\r\n    G              c\r\nAnd everywhere the bridges were broke, \r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe'd enter the water and swim. [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]  [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\" Lord Barnard, my Lord Barnard, [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]              \r\nyou are a man of life, [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nbut Musgrave he's at Bucklesfordberry, [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAsleep with your wedded wife.' [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]\r\n'If this be true, me little footpage, [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThis thing that you tell me, [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAll the gold in Bucklesford Berry [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nGladly I'll give to thee. [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]\r\n'But if this be a lie, thou little foot page, [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nThis thing that you tell me, [/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nFrom the highest tree in Bucklesfordberry, [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHanged you shall be.' [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"Go saddle me the black he said [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\ngo saddle me the grey [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nand sound you not your horns,\" he said [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]   [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"lest our coming you betray\" [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut there was a man in Lord Barnard's train [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWho loved the little Musgrave [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nand he blew his horn both loud and shrill [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\n'Away, Musgrave, away.'[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\n'I think I hear the morning cock, [/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]                \r\nI think I hear the jay; [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI think I hear Lord Barnard's men, [/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd I wish I was away.' [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch]\r\n'Lie still, lie still, thou Little Musgrave, [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                \r\nAnd hug me from the cold;[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch] \r\n'It's only a shepherd's boy, [/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nA-bringing his flock to fold. [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\n'Is not your hawk upon it's perch? [/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nYour steed eats oats and hay; [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd You've a lady in your arms, [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd yet you'd go away?' [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSo he's turned around and he's kissed her twice [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nand then they fell asleep [/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nwhen they awoke Lord Barnard's Men [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nwere standing at their feet. [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"How do you like me bed?\" he said, and [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                   \r\n\"How do you like me sheets?\" [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"And how do you like me fair lady , [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nthat lies in you arms asleep?\" [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]\r\n\"It's well I like your bed,\" he said [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\n\" and great it gives me pain, [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI would gladly give a hundred pounds [/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nto be on yonder plain.' [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSo slowly, so slowly he got up[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSo slowly he put on[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSlowly down the stairs[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThinking to be slain.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nRise up rise up,little Musgrave, [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nrise up and then put on;[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch] \r\nIt shall not be said in fair Ireland [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nthat I slayed a naked man. [/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]\r\n'There are two swords down at my side, [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nand dear they cost my purse; [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd you shall have the best of them, [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd I will take the worse.' [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe first rook that Musgrave struck [/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt hurt Lord Barnard sore; [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut the next rook that Lord Barnard struck, [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nLittle Musgrave ne'er struck more. [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThen up and spake the fair lady, [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nfrom on her bed she lay.' [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]\r\n'Although you're dead, Little Musgrave,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch] \r\nStill for you I\"ll pray. [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"How do you like his cheek?\" he said, and [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                   \r\n\"how do you like his chin? [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nand how do you like his dead body, [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nnow there's no life within.\" [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\n\"It's well I like his cheek\" she said, [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"and more I want his chin, [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIt's more I love his dead body, than [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nall your kith and kin.\" [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHe's taken out his long,long sword, [/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]            \r\nto strike the mortal blow, [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nand through, and through the lady's heart [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nthe cold steel it did go [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                        [ch]C[/ch]\r\n'A grave, a grave,' Lord Barnard cried, [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\n'To put these lovers in; [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut put my lady on the upper half, [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nFor she came from better kin.' [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                         [ch]C[/ch]\r\n'For I've just killed the finest knight [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]           \r\nThat ever rode a steed; [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd I've just slain the fairest lady [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThat ever did a woman's deed.\" [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIt fell upon a holy-day [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                \r\nAs many's in the year,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch] \r\nMusgrave to the church did go[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nto see fine ladies there[/tab]","plain_text":"[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n    G              c\nAnd everywhere the bridges were broke, \n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]","chords":["G","C","A"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}