Em D Am Em
If I were to own this countryside
G Am Em
As far as a man in a day could ride,
Em D Am Em
And the Tyes were mine for giving or letting, -
G Am Em
Wingle Tye and Margaretting
D F#m Bm A
Tye, - and Skreens, Gooshays, and Cockerells,
E F#m D A
Shellow, Rochetts, Bandish, and Pickerells,
D F#m Bm A
Martins, Lambkins, and Lillyputs,
Em F#m G A
Their copses, ponds, roads, and ruts,
Am Em
Fields where plough-horses steam and plovers
Am E7
Fling and whimper, hedges that lovers
F C G Dm
Love, and orchards, shrubberies, walls
C G Dm Am
Where the sun untroubled by north wind falls,
[chords as per verse 1]
And single trees where the thrush sings well
His proverbs untranslatable,
I would give them all to my son
If he would let me any one
[chords as per verse 2]
For a song, a blackbird's song, at dawn.
He should have no more, till on my lawn
Never a one was left, because I
Had shot them to put them into a pie, -
D F#m Bm A
His Essex blackbirds, every one,
Em F#m G A
And I was left old and alone.
Am Em Am Em
Then unless I could pay, for rent, a song
Am Em Am E7
As sweet as a blackbird's, and as long -
F C G Dm
No more - he should have the house, not I
C G Dm Am
Margaretting or Wingle Tye,
Am Em Am Em
Or it might be Skreens, Gooshays, or Cockerells,
Am Em Am E7
Shellow, Rochetts, Bandish, or Pickerells,
F C G Dm
Martins, Lambkins, or Lillyputs,
C G Am
Should be his till the cart tracks had no ruts.
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