Chords for MISALLIANCE (Flanders & Swann) by the King's Singers (1977)
Tempo:
64.5 bpm
Chords used:
E
B
F#m
C#
A
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[E] [B] The
[F#m] [B]
fragrant honeysuckle spirals clockwise to the sun,
And many other creepers do the [E]
same.
But [A] some climb [E] anti-clockwise, [B] the [E] bindweed does for one,
Or [G#m] [N] convulvulus, who give her proper name.
Rooted on either side of the door, one of each species grew,
And raced towards the window ledge above.
[E] Each course through to the lintel in the only way it knew,
Where they stopped, touched tendrils, smiled, and fell in love.
[C#] [F#m] [B] Said [E] [F#m] the right-handed honeysuckle to the left-handed bindweed,
Oh, let us get married, if our parents don't [G#m] mind,
We'd be loving and [F#m] inseparable, inextricably entwined,
And we'd live happily ever after, said the honeysuckle to the bindweed.
To the honeysuckle's parents it came as a shock,
The bindweeds, as they said, are ethereal, stalk them,
They're uncultivated, or breeding bereft.
We twine to the right, and they twine to the left, [B] said they.
[F#] And he talked [N] to the clockwise honeysuckle,
We'd better start saving many a mickle, max a muckle,
Then run away for a honeymoon, and hope that our luck'll
Take a turn for [E] the better, said the bindweed to the honeysuckle.
[B] A [E] bee who was [B] passing remarked to them then,
I've said it [A] before, and I'll say it again,
[C#] Consider your [F#] offshoots, if offshoots there be,
They'll never [B] receive any blessing from me.
Poor little sucker, [E] how will it learn,
When it is climbing, which way to turn?
[F#m] Right, left, what [Em] a disgrace,
For it may go straight up and fall flat on its face,
[B] Said the right-hand-thread honeysuckle to the left-hand-thread bindweed.
It seems that against us all fate has combined.
Oh my darling, oh my [C#] darling, oh [D#] my darling, call on [E] thine,
Thou art lost and gone forever, we shall never intertwine.
[C#]
Together they found them the very next day,
They had pulled up their [B] roots and just shriveled away.
Deprived of the freedom for which [D] we must fight,
To veer [Bm] to the [N] left or [B] to veer to [E] the
[F#m] [B]
fragrant honeysuckle spirals clockwise to the sun,
And many other creepers do the [E]
same.
But [A] some climb [E] anti-clockwise, [B] the [E] bindweed does for one,
Or [G#m] [N] convulvulus, who give her proper name.
Rooted on either side of the door, one of each species grew,
And raced towards the window ledge above.
[E] Each course through to the lintel in the only way it knew,
Where they stopped, touched tendrils, smiled, and fell in love.
[C#] [F#m] [B] Said [E] [F#m] the right-handed honeysuckle to the left-handed bindweed,
Oh, let us get married, if our parents don't [G#m] mind,
We'd be loving and [F#m] inseparable, inextricably entwined,
And we'd live happily ever after, said the honeysuckle to the bindweed.
To the honeysuckle's parents it came as a shock,
The bindweeds, as they said, are ethereal, stalk them,
They're uncultivated, or breeding bereft.
We twine to the right, and they twine to the left, [B] said they.
[F#] And he talked [N] to the clockwise honeysuckle,
We'd better start saving many a mickle, max a muckle,
Then run away for a honeymoon, and hope that our luck'll
Take a turn for [E] the better, said the bindweed to the honeysuckle.
[B] A [E] bee who was [B] passing remarked to them then,
I've said it [A] before, and I'll say it again,
[C#] Consider your [F#] offshoots, if offshoots there be,
They'll never [B] receive any blessing from me.
Poor little sucker, [E] how will it learn,
When it is climbing, which way to turn?
[F#m] Right, left, what [Em] a disgrace,
For it may go straight up and fall flat on its face,
[B] Said the right-hand-thread honeysuckle to the left-hand-thread bindweed.
It seems that against us all fate has combined.
Oh my darling, oh my [C#] darling, oh [D#] my darling, call on [E] thine,
Thou art lost and gone forever, we shall never intertwine.
[C#]
Together they found them the very next day,
They had pulled up their [B] roots and just shriveled away.
Deprived of the freedom for which [D] we must fight,
To veer [Bm] to the [N] left or [B] to veer to [E] the
Key:
E
B
F#m
C#
A
E
B
F#m
_ _ _ [E] _ [B] The _ _
_ _ [F#m] _ _ [B] _ _ _
fragrant honeysuckle spirals clockwise to the sun,
And many other creepers do the [E]
same.
But [A] some climb [E] anti-clockwise, [B] the [E] bindweed does for one,
Or [G#m] [N] convulvulus, who give her proper name.
Rooted on either side of the door, one of each species grew,
And raced towards the window ledge above.
[E] Each course through to the lintel in the only way it knew,
Where they stopped, touched tendrils, smiled, and fell in love.
_ [C#] _ [F#m] [B] Said _ [E] _ _ [F#m] _ the right-handed honeysuckle to the left-handed bindweed,
Oh, let us get married, if our parents don't [G#m] mind,
We'd be loving and [F#m] inseparable, inextricably entwined,
And we'd live happily ever after, said the honeysuckle to the bindweed.
To the honeysuckle's parents it came as a shock,
The bindweeds, as they said, are ethereal, stalk them,
They're uncultivated, or breeding bereft.
We twine to the right, and they twine to the left, [B] said they.
[F#] And he talked [N] to the clockwise honeysuckle,
We'd better start saving many a mickle, max a muckle,
Then run away for a honeymoon, and hope that our luck'll
Take a turn for [E] the better, said the bindweed to the honeysuckle. _
_ [B] A [E] bee who was [B] passing remarked to them then,
I've said it [A] before, and I'll say it again,
[C#] Consider your [F#] offshoots, if offshoots there be,
They'll never [B] receive any blessing from me.
Poor little sucker, [E] how will it learn,
When it is climbing, which way to turn?
[F#m] Right, left, what [Em] a disgrace,
For it may go straight up and fall flat on its face,
[B] Said the right-hand-thread honeysuckle to the left-hand-thread bindweed.
It seems that against us all fate has combined.
Oh my darling, oh my [C#] darling, oh [D#] my darling, call on [E] thine,
Thou art lost and gone forever, we shall never _ intertwine.
[C#] _
Together they found them the very next day,
They had pulled up their [B] roots and just shriveled away.
Deprived of the freedom for which [D] we must fight,
To veer [Bm] to the [N] left or [B] to veer to [E] the _
_ _ [F#m] _ _ [B] _ _ _
fragrant honeysuckle spirals clockwise to the sun,
And many other creepers do the [E]
same.
But [A] some climb [E] anti-clockwise, [B] the [E] bindweed does for one,
Or [G#m] [N] convulvulus, who give her proper name.
Rooted on either side of the door, one of each species grew,
And raced towards the window ledge above.
[E] Each course through to the lintel in the only way it knew,
Where they stopped, touched tendrils, smiled, and fell in love.
_ [C#] _ [F#m] [B] Said _ [E] _ _ [F#m] _ the right-handed honeysuckle to the left-handed bindweed,
Oh, let us get married, if our parents don't [G#m] mind,
We'd be loving and [F#m] inseparable, inextricably entwined,
And we'd live happily ever after, said the honeysuckle to the bindweed.
To the honeysuckle's parents it came as a shock,
The bindweeds, as they said, are ethereal, stalk them,
They're uncultivated, or breeding bereft.
We twine to the right, and they twine to the left, [B] said they.
[F#] And he talked [N] to the clockwise honeysuckle,
We'd better start saving many a mickle, max a muckle,
Then run away for a honeymoon, and hope that our luck'll
Take a turn for [E] the better, said the bindweed to the honeysuckle. _
_ [B] A [E] bee who was [B] passing remarked to them then,
I've said it [A] before, and I'll say it again,
[C#] Consider your [F#] offshoots, if offshoots there be,
They'll never [B] receive any blessing from me.
Poor little sucker, [E] how will it learn,
When it is climbing, which way to turn?
[F#m] Right, left, what [Em] a disgrace,
For it may go straight up and fall flat on its face,
[B] Said the right-hand-thread honeysuckle to the left-hand-thread bindweed.
It seems that against us all fate has combined.
Oh my darling, oh my [C#] darling, oh [D#] my darling, call on [E] thine,
Thou art lost and gone forever, we shall never _ intertwine.
[C#] _
Together they found them the very next day,
They had pulled up their [B] roots and just shriveled away.
Deprived of the freedom for which [D] we must fight,
To veer [Bm] to the [N] left or [B] to veer to [E] the _