Lady Gay chords by Dave Van Ronk

Dave van Ronk
'Inside Dave van Ronk' from 1964
'Lady Gay' traditional folk song


F#m
F#m           A  F#m
There was a lady and a lady gay,
           A
Of children she had three,
        F#m          A
She sent them away to the North Country
   F#m    E   F#m
To learn their grammar-ee

F#m           A  F#m
They had not been there very long,
             A
Scarcely six months and a day,
   F#m                 A
When death, cold death, come-a hasting along
    F#m     E   F#m
And he stole those babes away.

F#m               A F#m
She prayed to the lord that was in Heaven
           A
"Who airs a golden crown?
     F#m            A
prayer send to me, my three little babes
         B  F#m
tonight or the morning soon."

F#m
It was just about old christmas time
           A
Then I speak cold and clear
          F#m          A
She looked and she saw, her three little babes
   F#m    E  F#m
come running home to her

F#m          A    F#m
She sat a table both long and wide.
           A
on it put bread and wine.
         F#m          A
"Come eat, come drink, my three little babes.
         B   F#m
Come eat, come drink of mine."

F#m              A F#m
"We want none of your bread, mother,
          A
Neither do we want your wine,
      F#m       A
For yonder stands our savior deer,
    F#m   E   F#m
To his will we must resign."

F#m
"Green grass grows over our heads, mother,
            A
Cold clay is under our feet,
     F#m        A
And every tear you shed for us,
       B   F#m
It wets our winding-sheet."



Capo 2:

 F#m - Em
 A  - G