The Two Brothers Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
Two [F]pretty boys were going to the school
And one evening coming [C]home
[F]Said Willie to John, can you throw a stone
Or [Gm]can y[F]ou play at a ball, a ball
Or can you play at ball?
Said John to Willie, I can't throw a stone
Nor little can I play [G]at ball
[F]But if you will come down to John
Mary Greenwood
[G]I'll try [Gm]you a[C] wrestle and fall fall
I'll [F]try you a slum [G]for [F]when I got down to young Mary
Greenwood beneath the [C]spreading [F]moon[Eb]
[F]a dirk fell out of William's pooch which gave John is deadly wound,
wound,
which gave John [G]his [F]deadly wound.
You can take off your white holland shirt,
and tear it gore [G]by gore,[Eb]
and [F]you will bind my bloody wounds,
and they will blood no more, [C]no more,
[G]and they will blood [F]no more.
He's ta 'en off his little Holland shirt,
and he's tore it [C]gore by [Eb]gore,[C]
[F]and he did bind and his bloody wounds,
but they [G]bled ten [F]times more, more,
[C]but they ble[G]d ten[F] times more. home.
What will I tell to your father, dear,
this night as [C]I g[Eb]o home?
[F]Tell him I'm away to a London school
[G]an d the good books I'll
[C]bring home [F]hom[C]e
[F]and the [G]good books I'll [F]bring home.
What will I tell to your sweetheart dear
this night as I [C]go [F]home?
Tell her I'm away to a London school,
[G]and the[Am] good scholar I'l[G]l
[C]come home, [F]home,
[C]an d the good scholar
[G]I'll come [F]home.[G]
[F]What will I tell to your stepmother,
dear,
this night as [C]I g[G]o home?
Tell [F]her I am [F]dead
[Am]and in my g[G]rave l[F]aid
For [G]she's prayed [Am]I might [G]ne [C]'er come [Am]home,
[F]home
She's prayed I [G]might
[F]ne 'er come [Am]home you