Chords for Fairport Convention - Matty Groves - (2012)

_ Here is a song about
_ Misadventure _ it's a story which has not been out of the repertoire really much since it joined back on the Legion leaf album in 1969
Several people have sung it in succession
_ frequently using the same words
But it's a story of upstairs downstairs
[G] misadventure love gone wrong
trouble in paradise castles cuckoldry and cutlasses
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_ [Dm] _ _ _ [G] _ [Dm] _ Oh
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Beauty she bent her breast and ran when she [C] came to the prom hill stream to cover [D] shoes she swam _ _
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_ _ [Dm] _ [D] So little laddie rose she lay down
He took a little sleep when he walked Lord Arnold was standing by his feet
Saying how do you like my feather bed?
How do you like my [Dm] sheets?
How do you like [Am] my curtains that I got in Ikea [Bb] last week?
[B] [D] Oh, well, I like [Db] your feather [D] bed
But I like your [E] sheets
[Dm] _ [C] Lady [D] wife my arms asleep get up
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_ can but it'll never be [C] said it's [F] where they the nice to [Dm] make it man
Oh, I can't get up when I won't get up.
I wouldn't get up for my [D] life
You have [Cm] to love sweet and [Dm] sauce wine on a bucket knife.
It's true
I've got to be the sword and they got [Gbm] speedy in the [D] past
You will [C] have the best of [Dm] the best and I will be the worst
And you will strike me the very first blow strike it like a [D] man
I will strike [C] the very next [Dm] blow
[Am] I'll kill you if I can
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[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ very first blow when he heard Lord Arnold's song
[E] Lord [Bm] Arnold struck the very next blow Mattie struck [Eb] no more
[D] Thank you, so do you wait for me?
_ _ _ Like the best of us now, will you that many girls saw me?
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_ [Dm] _ I would rather one [C] kiss than that.
He's listening at all.
I'm a [Dm] finery
That Lord and he jumped up loudly.
Did he fall?
He's [E] to get right right through the [D] heart and he pinned up [Dm] to the wall
[D] Grave a grave Lord Arnold tried to put these lovers in a bunch of penny my lady [C] at the top
[D] [C] She was a
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