The Bailiffs Daughter Of Islington chords by Traditional

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Bailiff's Daughter appears in Percy's Reliques (1765) and William Chappell's Popular Music of
 the Olden Time; a collection of Ancient Songs, Ballads and Dance Tunes from Writers of the 16th
and 17th Centuries (circa 1859).

Intro:
| C | C | C  | F |
| C | C | C G | C |

Verses:
   C
There was a youth, and a well belov'd youth,
  C     F    C
And he was a esquire's son,
  F    C          Am
He loved the bailiff's daughter dear,
   C    G   C
That lived in Islington.

C
She was coy, and she would not believe
   C    F    C
That he did love her so,
   F     C    Am
No, nor at any time she would
    C  G     C
Any countenance to him show.

   C
But when his friends did understand,
  C     F    C
His fond and foolish mind,
   F    C        Am
They sent him up to fair London,
    C    G   C
An apprentice for to bind.

   C
And when he had been seven long years,
  C      F    C
And his love he had not seen,
    F     C       Am
Many a tear have I shed for her sake,
    C     G     C
When she little thought of me.

C
All the maids of Islington
   C     F    C
Went forth to sport and play;
 F      C         Am
All but the bailiff's daughter dear;
    C    G   C
She secretly stole away.

  C
She put off her gown of gray,
  C     F      C
And put on her puggish attire;
 F      C      Am
She's up to fair London gone,
  C     G   C
Her true-love to require.

  C
As she went along the road,
   C       F    C
The weather being hot and dry,
   F     C        Am
There was she aware of her true-love,
   C     G   C
At length come riding by.

  C
She stept to him, as red as any rose,
  C         F   C
And took him by the bridle ring;
   F      C        Am
"I pray you, kind sir, give me one penny,
  C     G  C
To ease my weary limb."

    C
"I prithee, sweetheart, canst thou tell me
C      F     C
Where that thou wast born?"
   F   C          Am
"At Islington, kind sir," said she,
    C      G   C
"where I have had many a scorn."

    C
"I prithee, sweetheart, canst thou tell me
C    F      C
Whether thou dost know
  F     C         Am
The bailiff's daughter of Islington?"
    C     G  C
"She's dead, sir, long ago."

   C
"Then will I sell my goodly steed,
  C   F    C
My saddle and my bow;
F         C    Am
I will into some far country,
   C    G    C
Where no man doth me know."

  C
"O stay, O stay, thou goodly youth!
     C    F    C
She's alive, she is not dead;
     F    C   Am
Here she standeth by thy side,
     C    G   C
And is ready to be thy bride."