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Ca The Yowes To The Nowes Tab

by Joanna Newsom


Chords

                 A#1   G#1    
|-4-| |-8-| |-6-| |-6-| |-10| |-11| |-8-|
|-4-| |-9-| |-8-| |-6-| |-11| |-13| |-8-|
|-5-| |-10| |-8-| |-7-| |-10| |-13| |-9-|
|-6-| |-10| |-8-| |-8-| |-8-| |-13| |-10|
|-6-| |-8-| |-6-| |-8-| |-x-| |-11| |-10|
|-4-| |-x-| |-x-| |-6-| |-x-| |-x-| |-8-|

To make it sound like a harp try some finger picking patterns

           ()    ( ) you could eventually play the  in between
Ca' the yowes to the knowes
                      A#1
Call them where the heather grows
G#1                    
Call them where the burnie rowes
      
My bonnie dearie

                     
When I went down the water-side
                    A#1
To see the fishes sweetly plaid
G#1                     
Beneath the hazel spreading wide
                        
And the moon that shines so clearly

                     
When I went down the water-side
                        A#1
'Twas there I met my shepherd lad
   G#1                 
He row'd me sweetly in his plaid
                 
And called me, I his dearie

                             
If you'll but stand to what you've said
                        A#1
I'll come with you, my bonnie lad
     G#1                 
And you may row me in your plaid
                
And i will be your dearie

                         
You will get gowns and ribbons meet
                      A#1
And leather shoes upon your feet
    G#1                   
And in my arms you'll lie and sleep
              
My bonnie dearie

 vary with these chords
   
|-8-| |-11| |-13| |-16|
|-9-| |-9-| |-9-|
|-8-| |-8-| |-8-|
|-10| |-10| |-10|
|-8-| |-8-| |-8-|
|-x-| |-x-| |-x-|

                  
As waters wimple to the sea
                         A#1
While day breaks in the sky so high
      G#1                        
Till' clay-cold death shall blind my eye
           
I shall be thy dearie

      G#1                        
Till' clay-cold death shall blind my eye
           
I shall be thy dearie