Sweet William Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
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[Verse 1]
Will you [Em]put
down your fiddle young Willie
Will you put down your fiddle and [C]pray
That [G]the world has be[C]gun with
[G]the birth of [C]the sun
And its [Em]death the very same day

[Verse 2]
"Now [Em]kiss [G]me young lover" [Bm]cried
Maggie the [D]glover
"We're a [A]village [C]of babes and[G] I'm
[D]over the moon"
[Em]"Where's all [G]your fellas,
[Bm]those young buck propellers,"
[D]Cried [A]Willie [C]who swam [G]in
the room [D]full of

[Verse 3]
Will you [Em]put down your
fiddle young Willie
Will you put down your fiddle and [C]pray
That [G]the world has be[C]gun with
[G]the birth of [C]the sun
And its [Em]death the very same day
[C]Still

[Verse 4]
[G]the fiddle brightly sun[Em]g,
its [C]horn[Bm]pipe [D]playing
It's a [G]Londonderry tun[Em]e,
long [G]gone's the after[C]noon
We'll sing [G]"ever [C]and more
and [G]ever will [Em]be"
The old [G]men he'd

[Verse 5]
seen,
[Bm]all cracked teeth with glee
[D]Brought gol[A]d for[C] the boy
who could [G]carry [D]all time
For [Em]they in [G]dear guardian
[Bm]ship sailing and broken
[D]Ship [A]wizened [C]and aged in[G]
pursuit [D]of the wine
"It's [Em]not what I[G] came

[Verse 6]
for,"
[Bm]cried Will with dis[F#m]dain for
[A]The din and t[C]he clamour
[G]of faucet[D]s undone
Til a [Em]glimpse of per[G]fection
[Bm]in Sally's reflect[D]ion
In a [A]mirror [C]that carried her
[G]light like [D]the sun
Will you [Em]put down your

[Verse 7]
[Em]
fiddle young Willie
Will you put down your fiddle
and [C]pray (right now)
That [G]the world has be[C]gun with
[G]the birth of [C]the sun
And its [Em]death the very same day

[Verse 8]
With Will in the mid[G]st an
[Bm]d no heat to desist
[A]The[C] gentrified stock
[G]who had seen [D]off the
And [Em]laughed at [G]the lad [Bm]seeing all that he had
[D]And whi[A]spered the[C]ir praise
[G]to the soul [D]of his sword
If [Em]Will had [G]known

[Verse 9]
better,
[Bm]he'd not have known bett[D]er
And [A]his[C]tory's song [G]would
[D]have ended with time
So it's [Em]lucky for [G]learn[Bm]ing
that history's [D]yearning
Is [A]not [C]in repeating [G]but
[D]for something that rhymes

[Verse 10]
Will you [Em]pick up your fiddle young
Willie (pick it up)
Will you pick up your fiddle and [C]play
For [G]the world has be[C]gun
with [G]the birth of [C]the sun
And its [Em]death the very same day
[C]Still

[Verse 11]
[G]the fiddle bri[D]ghtly sun[Em]g,
its [C]horn[Bm]pipe [D]playing
It's a [G]Londonderry tun[Em]e,
long [G]gone's the afternoon
[C]We'll sing "ev[G]er and[C] more and eve[G]r wil[Em]l[C][Em][E]
[Em]
[Bm][C][G]
[C][Em][C]
[G]be"[C][Em][C][G][C]

[Outro 1]
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