SEALSONGS: The Green King's Daughter

words & music ã G. Seal 1972

Am G F Am

Fiddler take up your good fiddle bow

Am G F G

Strung with the music of long times ago

Am G F G

Singing the stories of brave ancient heroes

Am G F Am

Scattered on the springtime with the seeds that they sowed

C G Am G

CH. Then you shall sleep with the green king’s daughter

C G Am G

Wherever she is weaving on the flowery loom

C G Am G

She will bring you the gifts of the garden

Am G Am (G) Am

The last leaves of summer will dance to your tunes

2. Piper take up your willowy wand

Breathing long notes of magic when the warm wind blows

Whistle a glad tune for the heroes of summer

Who fought in the furrows where the yellow corn grows

3. Harper lift up your silken strings

Let them sing softer than the waters’ flow

Sad songs of autumn, sad songs of the harvest

For old heroes must die and the grain we must moe.

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