Chords for The Blind Harper - Andy Irvine 1976

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_ [Eb] Have you heard of the blind harper?
How he lived in Loch Maven town?
He would go [Ab] to fair [Eb] England to steal King Henry's [Cm] wanton [Bb] [Ab] brown.
_ [Eb] But first he's gone on [Ab] to [Eb] his wife with all the speed [Ab] that he [Eb] could show.
This work he [Ab] says it'll [Eb] never go well without the help of our [Cm] good [Bb] grey [Ab] mare.
_ [Eb] He says you take the good grey mare, she'll run o'er hills both low and high.
Sit you [Ab] on the [Eb] grey mare's back and leave the foal [C] at home [Bb] with me.
[Ab] _ [Eb] So he is up to England gone even as fast as go could he.
When he [Ab] came to [Eb] Carlisle gates who should be there but [Cm] King [Bb] Henry.
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[Eb] As the king he looked over [Ab] his left [Eb] shoulder and he says on to his serving groom.
Take the poor [Ab] blind [Eb] harper's mare put her beside [Cm] me [Bb] wanton [Ab] brown.
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_ [Cm] _ [Bb] _ [Ab] _ [Eb] The harper [Ab] harped and [Eb] then he sang and he's charmed them [Ab] all so fast [Eb] asleep.
Straightway he [Ab] took off [Eb] his shoes quietly down the [Cm] stairs [Bb] did creep.
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_ [Eb] Soon he came to the stable door with dread as light [Ab] as light [Eb] could be.
When he [Ab] opened and [Eb] went in he found party [Cm] season [Bb] three.
[Ab] _ [Eb] And he's taken a [Ab] halt [Eb] from his home from his purpose he did not fail.
He slipped it over the wanton's nose he's tied it to the [Cm] grey [Bb] mare's tail.
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And [Eb] he's loosed them out of the castle gates and the mare didn't fail to find her way.
She was at [Ab] Loch [Eb] Mabon town three long hours before the [Ab] day.
[Eb] And the very next morning in broad daylight when they had ended [Ab] all [Eb] their cheer.
The whole the [Ab] wanton [Eb] brown was gone likewise the poor blind harper's mare.
[Ab] _ [Eb] And it's oh and alas is the blind harper and it's a burden that last time came here.
In Scotland they've [Ab] lost me a [Eb] good grey foal in England they've stolen me old grey mare.
[Ab] _ [Eb] And it's hold you top you blind harper and again of your music let us sneer.
Well paid shall your coat foal be you will have a far better mare.
[Ab] _ [Eb] So the harper harped and then he sang so sweet with the [Ab] music he [Eb] let them hear.
He would pay for a foal that [Eb] he never had lost three times over for the good grey [Ab] mare.
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