Chords for The False Lady - John Doyle

_ [Abm] It's a very modernized [Gb] version _ _ _ of the _
[Abm] _ _ Bartholomew Child.
[N] No, not the Bartholomew Child, that's him.
He was collected by Francis Child in the mid-1800s.
_ _ Apparently he collected, I don't know, maybe 500 to 1000 songs from people.
And some still think that it's only two songs.
_ You know, there's a version of the two songs. _
And this is the second version of the first song.
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_ [Abm] It's called The False Lady.
And this is, as far as ballads, folk ballads are going,
this is the quintessential folk ballad.
You have a man and a woman meeting in the alabaster. _ _ _
_ _ _ The word all changes.
The woman says, will you come home when you come out?
_ _ _ [N] No. _
_ _ _ _ And the second thing is that she kills Martinus.
He says that and so_
How many times do you have to snatch the ballad? _
_ _ Well, you see, in those days, rape.
A penknife actually meant the disc on a blade.
It was meant to be a stabbing knife.
And it's kind of like a letter knife.
_ And how's the coffee doing?
Is it going well?
Do you have milk?
_ _ We've got milk.
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_ had to put a sign up.
So you can go around.
It's been out to school.
That's good. _
We might not have. _ _ _ _
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Irish beer.
_ _ Well, anyway, this song is so lame.
She kills him. _
And she gets him.
Now we know she's a lady because she gets him amazing waiting
to throw him down a deep well, 50 fathoms deep.
And scolds him from the top of his head,
saying you shouldn't have done that to me.
So then, that's only the first part of the story.
Because then the second half is when it's a pretty [Ab] little bird.
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_ I saw everything that he did.
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_ In folk terminology, the [Bb] part of the lover is
the ghost or reincarnation or the conscience of the woman.
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And it's a true story, by the way.
_ And in folk. _ _
_ Only joking. _ _
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