Mary Hamilton chords by Joan Baez

On her first album ("Joan Baez"), Baez does this in the key of B. (In "The Joan Baez
Song Book", it's in D.)


C       F    C            G7
Word is to the kitchen gone, and word is to the hall,
  F    G7   C     Am
And word is up to Madam the Queen
  C      G7    C
And that is the worst of all.
   F  G7      C    Am      C    G7    C
That Mary Hamilton has borne a babe, to the highest Stuart of all.


 C         F  C           G7
"Arise, arise Mary Hamilton, arise and tell to me,
   F     G7    C    Am   C       G7   C
What thou hast done with thy wee babe I saw and heard weep by thee?"

 C       F  C             G7
"I put him in a tiny boat, and cast him out to sea,
   F    G7   C    Am       C     G7   C
That he might sink or he might swim, but he'd never come back to me."


 C         F  C            G7
"Arise, arise Mary Hamilton, arise and come with me;
   F  G7     C    Am     C      G7   C
There is a wedding in Glasgow town, this night we'll go and see."


C         F    C           G7
She put not on her robes of black, nor her robes of brown.
  F    G7   C    Am    C     G7   C
But she put on her robes of white, to ride into Glasgow town.


C          F    C          G7
And as she rode into Glasgow town the city for to see,
  F     G7      C     Am     C    G7    C
The bailiff's wife and the provost's wife cried "ach and alas for thee."


C             F    C              G7
"Ah you need not weep for me," she cried,"you need not weep for me.
    F   G7    C    Am    C    G7    C
For had I not slain my own wee babe this night I would not die."


C        F   C              G7
Ah little did my mother think when first she cradled me,
  F    G7   C   Am     C    G7   C
The lands I was to travel in and the death I was to die."


C            F    C              G7
Last night I washed the Queen's feet and put the gold in her hair,
    F  G7    C    Am     C     G7  C
And the only reward I find for this is the gallows to be my share."


C           F     C              G7
"Cast off, cast off my gown," she cried,"but let my petticoat be,
  F   G7   C    Am    C     G7    C
And tie a napkin 'round my face; the gallows I would not see."


C          F    C               G7
Then by and come the King himself, looked up with a pitiful eye,
   F     G7    C  Am   C        G7    C
"Come down, come down Mary Hamilton, tonight, you will dine with me."


 C            F     C             G7
"Ah hold your tongue, my sovereign liege, and let your folly be;
    F    G7   C    Am     C     G7    C
For if you'd a mind to save my life, you'd never have shamed me here.


C             F C              G7
Last night there were four Marys, tonight there'll be but three.
     F  G7     C  Am     C    G7     C