The wedding feast
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- A - G
+ D - G - A
- D
(2x)
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A D
1. So the wedding feast begins,
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A Bm
jesters
dance and maidens sing.
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Pork and vension,
chicken and beef,
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as
befits a wedding feast.
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2. For a Loxley, duty calls,
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A
Bm
but
for Robin these castle walls
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were
a prison, and not a home,
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- D
his
greatest wish was to be gone.
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A D
For there are hopes and dreams in a young man's heart,
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to take him to the sky.
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F#m G D
But if he is tied down to the ground,
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his dreams will never fly.
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F Bb
F
C
+ Then his father bids
him speak, upon this wedding day,
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F G
but
too much wine, in veno veritas,
truth is on the way.
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F G C
“Father I have always been, at
you back and call,
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G
but I
don't need you to tell me what I can and cannot do.
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Eb Bb F
So with King Richard I will
go, to the
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“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,
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Bm
trembling
at the wedding bed,
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Robin tells her from the door,
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"Do not fear, I will not
stay !
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D
- G - D
I'll be gone, before the break
of day."
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For there are hopes and dreams in a young man's heart,
G A
to take him to the sky.
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But if he is tied down to the ground,
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his dreams will never fly.
+ Bm -
A - G - A (3x) -
D - G - D - G - D - G - D
(Chris de Burgh)