Edwin chords by Steeleye Span

Steeleye Span

Capo: I

This can be played with easier chords by transposing down 2 half steps.


   Gm   D     Gm     D7      Gm
Come all ye wild young people and listen to my song
     D   Gm        D7       Gm
I will unfold concerning gold that guides so many wrong
    Bb    F        Gm       D
Young Emma was a servant maid who loved a sailor bold
  Gm      D        Gm      D7         Gm
Who ploughed the main much gold to gain for his love so we've been told.

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He ploughed the main for seven years and then return-ed home
      D   Gm       D7       Gm
As soon as he set foot on shore unto his love did go
  Bb       F        Gm       D
He went unto young Emma's house his gold all for to show
   Gm   D        Gm       D7    Gm
That he had gained upon the main all in the lowlands low.


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Young Edwin he sat drinking till time to go to bed
     D     Gm           D7        Gm
He little thought a sword that night would part his body and head
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Young Edwin he got into bed and scarcely was asleep
   Gm D     Gm       D7       Gm
When Emily's cruel parents soft into his room did creep


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They stabbed him, dragged him out of bed and to the sea did go
       D  Gm       D7       Gm
They sent his body floating, down to the lowlands low
  Bb         F       Gm         D
"Oh father, where's the stranger came here last night to lay?"
  Gm  D    Gm         D7      Gm
"Oh he is dead no tales can tell" the father he did say.


  Gm   D   Gm     D7       Gm
The fishes of the ocean swim o'er my lover's breast
     D    Gm    D7         Gm
His body rolls in motion I hope his soul's at rest
  Bb       F     Gm       D
The shells upon the sea shore rolling to and fro
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Remind me of young Edwin that ploughed the lowlands low


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So many a day she passed away and tried to ease her mind
       D      Gm        D7     Gm
Crying "Oh my friends, my love is gone and I am left behind"
  Bb     F       Gm        D
And Emma broken hearted was to Bedlam forced to go
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Her shrieks were for young Edwin that ploughed the lowlands low.