{"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":2863883,"song":"Thomas The Rhymer","artist":"Ewan MacColl","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11647082-thomas-the-rhymer-chords-by-ewan-maccoll/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2863883?type=chord","rating":0,"votes":0,"content":"[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nTrue Thomas lay on Huntlie bank,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nA ferlie he spied wi' his e'e,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                      [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd there he saw a lady bright[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                      [ch]Em[/ch]     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nCome riding down by the Eildon Tree.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nHer skirt was o' the grass-green silk,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nHer mantle o' the velvet fyne.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAt ilka tett o' her horse's mane[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nHung fifty siller bells and nine.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nTrue Thomas he pull's aff his cap[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd louted low down to his knee:[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\n“All hail, thou mighty Queen o' Heaven![/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nFor thy peer on earth I never did see.”[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\n“O no, o no, Thomas,” she said,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\n“That name does not belong to me;[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI am but the queen of fair Elfland[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThat am hither come to visit thee.”[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\n“Harp and carp, Thomas,” she said,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\n“Harp and carp along wi' me.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd if ye dare to kiss my lips,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSure of your body I will be.”[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\n“Betide me weal, betide me woe,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThat weird shall never daunton me.”[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nSyne he has kissed her rosy lips[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAll underneath the Eildon Tree.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\n“Now ye maun gang wi' me,” she said,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\n“True Thomas, ye maun gang wi' me.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd ye maun serve me seven years[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThro' weal and woe, as may chance to be.”[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nShe mounted on her milk-white steed,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nShe's ta'en True Thomas up behind.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd aye whene'er her bridle rung[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]          [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe steed flew faster than the wind.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nO they rode on and farther on,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThe steed gaed swifter than the wind,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nUntil they reached a desert wide[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]      [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd living land was left behind.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\n“Light down, light down now, True Thomas[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd lean your head upon my knee,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAbide and rest a little space[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]      [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd I will show you ferlies three.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\n“O see ye not yon narrow road[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nSo thick beset with thorns and briars?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThat is the path of righteousness,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nTho' after it but few enquires.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\n“And see ye not that braid, braid road[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThat lies across that lily leven?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThat is the path of wickedness,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nTho' some ca' it the road to heaven.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\n“And see ye not that bonny road[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThat winds about the fernie brae?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThat is the road to fair Elfland[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWhere thou and I this night maun gae.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\n“But, Thomas, ye maun hold your tongue[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWhatever ye may hear or see.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nFor if you speak word in Elfyn land[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]                [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nYe'll ne'er get back to your ain countrie.”[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nSyne they came on to a garden green,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd she pu'd an apple frae a tree:[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\n“Take this for thy wages, True Thomas[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]                   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nIt will gi' ye the tongue that can never lie.”[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\n“My tongue is mine ain,” True Thomas said,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\n“A guidly gift ye wad gie to me![/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI neither dought to buy or sell,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]       [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAt fair or tryst where I may be.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\n“I dought neither speak to prince or peer[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nNor ask of grace from fair ladye.”[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\n“Now hold thy peace,”, the lady said,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]      [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n“For as I say, so must it be.”[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nHe has gotten a coat of the even cloth[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd a pair of shune of velvet green,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd till seven years were gane and past[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nTrue Thomas on earth was never seen.[/tab]","plain_text":"","chords":["Am","E","A","Em"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]}}}