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This song appears to derive from The Three Ravens
after Steel Eye Span. Nate's decision to write this in 4 might be questioned but it turns out the song seems to shift between 4/4 and 3/4 so this just easier.
Twa Corbies
by trad
As I was a- [Em] walkin’ [D] all a- [Em] lane
I heard twa [Em] corbies [D] makin’ [Em] mane
The tane untay the tither did say [D] oh
[Em] “where sall we gang and [D] dine to- [Em] day oh,
[Em] where sall we gang and [D] dine to- [Em] day”?
“In behint yon auld fail dyke
I wot there lies a new slayn knight
and naebody kens that he lies there oh
but his hawk and his hound and his lady fair oh
his hawk and his hound and his lady fair.
“His hawk is tay the hunting gane
his hound to fetch the wild foul hame
his lady has taken another mate oh
so we may mak our dinner sweet oh
we may mak our dinner sweet.
“Ye’ll sit on his white haus bane
and I’ll pike out his bonny blue eye’n
with mony a lock o his gowden hair oh
we’ll theek our nest when it grows bare oh
theek our nest when it grows bare
“Mony a one for him maks mane
yet none sall ken where he has gane
and o’er his white banes when they are bare oh
the wind sall blaw for ever mair oh
the wind sall blaw for ever mair.
I heard twa [Em] corbies [D] makin’ [Em] mane
The tane untay the tither did say [D] oh
[Em] “where sall we gang and [D] dine to- [Em] day oh,
[Em] where sall we gang and [D] dine to- [Em] day”?
“In behint yon auld fail dyke
I wot there lies a new slayn knight
and naebody kens that he lies there oh
but his hawk and his hound and his lady fair oh
his hawk and his hound and his lady fair.
“His hawk is tay the hunting gane
his hound to fetch the wild foul hame
his lady has taken another mate oh
so we may mak our dinner sweet oh
we may mak our dinner sweet.
“Ye’ll sit on his white haus bane
and I’ll pike out his bonny blue eye’n
with mony a lock o his gowden hair oh
we’ll theek our nest when it grows bare oh
theek our nest when it grows bare
“Mony a one for him maks mane
yet none sall ken where he has gane
and o’er his white banes when they are bare oh
the wind sall blaw for ever mair oh
the wind sall blaw for ever mair.