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Good King Wenceslas by Skydiggers
Good King Wenceslas
Chords: Em7 = 022033 (or you can just get away with Em 022000)
G C G
Good King Wenceslas looked out, on the Feast of Stephen
G C G
When the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even.
G C G Em7 C G
Brightly shone the moon that night, though the frost was cruel
G C Em7 D G Em7 C G
When a poor man came in sight, gathering winter fuel.
G C G
Hither page, and stand by me, if thou knowest it, telling
G C G
Yonder peasant, who is he? Where and what his dwelling?
G C G Em7 C G
Sire, he lives a good league hence, underneath the mountain
G C Em7 D G Em7 C G
Right against the forest fence, by St. Agnes fountain.
G C G
Bring me flesh and bring me wine, bring me pine logs hither
G C G
Thou and I will see him dine, when we bear them thither.
G C G Em7 C G
Page and monarch, forth they went, forth they went together
G C Em7 D G Em7 C G
Through the rude winds wild lament and the bitter weather.
Instrumental:
G C G
G C Em7 D G G Em7 C G
G C G
Sire, the night is darker now, and the wind blows stronger
G C G
Fails my heart, I know not how; I can go no longer.
G C G Em7 C G
Mark my footsteps, my good page. Tread though in them boldly
G C Em7 D G Em7 C G
Thou shall find the winters rage, freeze thy blood less coldly.
G C G
In his masters' steps he trod, where the snow lay dinted
G C G
Heat was in the very sod, which the saint had printed.
G C G Em7 C G
Therefore, Women, men, be sure, wealth or rank possessing
G C Em7 D G Em7 C G
Ye who now will bless the poor, shall yourselves find blessing.
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