The wedding feast     (video)

 

    D - G - A - D    - Bm - A - G  

 

+  D - G - A - D (2x)

 

     D           G           A          D

1. So the wedding feast begins,

     D          G                A          Bm

    jesters dance and maidens sing.

       Bm         D             Bm               D

    Pork and vension, chicken and beef,

     G                 A

    as befits a wedding feast.

 

       D      G          A     D

2. For a Loxley, duty calls,

      D         G                 A        Bm

    but for Robin these castle walls

       Bm       D              Bm     D

    were a prison, and not a home,

              G                       A         D    - G - D

    his greatest wish was to be gone.

 

                        G                 D                A                   D

For there are hopes and dreams in a young man's heart,

     G                        A

to take him to the sky.

         Bm    F#m         G           D

But if he is tied down to the ground,

         G                        A   - D

his dreams will never fly.

 

         F                   Bb              F        Bb           F           C

+  Then his father bids him speak, upon this wedding day,

          Gm                        Eb                   F                     G

    but too much wine, in veno veritas, truth is on the way.

        C                  F                   G                         C

    “Father I have always been, at you back and call,

             Am                       G                     F                      G

    but I don't need you to tell me what I can and cannot do.

           Bb                       Eb    Bb  Eb        Bb     F

     So with King Richard I will go, to the Holy Land.”

     Cm                        G#                            Bb                   C

    “Guy of Gisbourne, will you join me ? Swear it on my hand !”

 

+  A - G - F - G (3x)   - F - G - A

 

      D         G          A               D

3. As for Marian, waiting in dread,

       D           G          A         Bm

    trembling at the wedding bed,

      Bm    D            Bm         D

    Robin tells her from the door,

       G                    A

     "Do not fear, I will not stay !

     G                     A                          D     - G - D

    I'll be gone, before the break of day."

 

                        G                 D                A                   D

For there are hopes and dreams in a young man's heart,

     G                        A

to take him to the sky.

         Bm    F#m         G           D

But if he is tied down to the ground,

         G                        A   - D - G - D

his dreams will never fly.

 

+  Bm - A - G - A (3x)   - D - G - D - G - D - G - D

 

 

    (Chris de Burgh)