Edwin
Steeleye Span
Capo: I
This can be played with easier chords by transposing down 2 half steps.
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Come all ye wild young people and listen to my song
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I will unfold concerning gold that guides so many wrong
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Young Emma was a servant maid who loved a sailor bold
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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
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As soon as he set foot on shore unto his love did go
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He went unto young Emma's house his gold all for to show
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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
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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
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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
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They sent his body floating, down to the lowlands low
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"Oh father, where's the stranger came here last night to lay?"
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"Oh he is dead no tales can tell" the father he did say.
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The fishes of the ocean swim o'er my lover's breast
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His body rolls in motion I hope his soul's at rest
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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
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Crying "Oh my friends, my love is gone and I am left behind"
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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.
