Words & Music:
Cat Stevens
INTRO: [E5 Em(12) implied]
(harmonic)
E
|-------------------------|--------------12-----|
B
|-----------0---0-----0---|---------------------|
G
|-------------------------|---------------------| [4x]
D
|--------9---------9------|---------------------|
A
|-------------------------|----7----------------|
E
|----0--------------------|----------0----------|
[RIFF 1]
[RIFF 2]
My Lady D'Arbanville, why do you sleep so still?
[RIFF 1]
Bm
I'll wake you tomorrow and you will be my fill;
Em
Yes, you will be my fill.
Em D
Em
My Lady D'Arbanville---, why does it grieve me so?
Em D
Bm
But your heart seems so silent---; why do you breathe so low?
Em
Why do you breathe so low?
My Lady D'Arbanville, why do you sleep so still?
I'll wake you tomorrow and you will be my fill;
Yes, you will be my fill. [RIFF
3 - 4x, then RIFF 2]
[chords like verse 1:]
My Lady D'Arbanville, you look so cold tonight.
Your lips feel like winter, your skin has turned to white;
Your skin has turned to white.
VERSE 1 REPRISE: [chords like verse 2]
"La-La..." verse tune: [chords like verse 3]
VERSE 2 REPRISE:
[chords like verse 2:]
I loved you, my lady, though in your grave you lie.
I'll always be with you; this rose will never die.
This rose will never die.
LAST VERSE REPRISE: [chords like verse 3]
RIFF 1: RIFF
2: RIFF
3:
E
---------------| |-----------------| |------------------------------|
B
-12-12-10-8-10-| |--10-10-12-10-8--| |------------------------------|
G ---------------| |-----------------| |-------------0----------------|
D -12-12-10-9-10-| |--10-10-12-10-9--| |------0h2-----2-0---------0-2-|
A ---------------| |-----------------| |-0h2----------------2-0h2--2--|
E ---------------| |-----------------| |------------------------------|