Tom: Am
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D C D
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[Verse]
Em C
There lived a wife in Usher's Well
E/B Am
A wealthy wife was she
D G Em
She had three stout and stalwart sons
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And sent them o'er the sea
[Verse]
D C D
They had not been from Usher's Well
G C D C
A week but barely one
D C D
When word came to this carline wife
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That her three sons were gone
[Chorus]
C G D
"I wish the wind... may never cease
C D
Nor flashes in the flood
Dm C
Till my three sons return to me
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In earthly flesh and blood
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Earthly flesh and blood"
[Verse]
Em C
It fell about the Martinmas
E/B Am
The nights were long and dark
D G Em
Three sons came home to Usher's Well
C D C
Their hats were made of bark
[Verse]
D C D
That neither grew in forest green
G C D C
Nor on any wooded rise
D C D
But from the north side of the tree
G C D G C D
That grows in Paradise
[Chorus]
C G D
"Blow up the fire..., my merry, merry maidens
C D
Bring water from the well
Dm C
For all my house shall feast this night
D C D C
Since my three sons are well
D C D
My three sons are well"
[Instrumental]
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D C D
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[Verse]
Em C
Then up and crowed the blood red cock
E/B Am
And up and crowed the grey
D G Em
The oldest to the youngest said
C D
"It's time we were away"
[Verse]
C D C D
"For the cock does crow and the day doth show
G C D C
And the channering worm doth chide
D C D
And we must go from Usher's Well
G C D G C D
To the gates of Paradise"
[Chorus]
C G D
"I wish the wind... may never cease
C D
Nor flashes in the flood
Dm C
Till my three sons return to me
D C D C
In earthly flesh and blood
D C D
Earthly flesh and blood"
[Outro]
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