The Owl Song/Song from The Tempest [Shakespeare Poems set to music]
Channel: tobydarling
Date: 2020-05-02

The Owl Song
E/A D/A
When icicles hang by the wall, 
A Em
And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, 
F C Em
And Tom bears logs into the hall, 
E/A D/A
And milk comes frozen home in pail; 
A Em
When blood is nipped, and ways be foul, 
F Em A
Then nightly sings the staring owl, 
Em Bm
“Tu-whit, Tu-whoo!” –
A F#m
A merry note, 
G A Bm
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.

When all aloud the wind doth blow, 
And coughing drowns the parson’s saw, 
And birds sit brooding in the snow, 
And Marian’s nose looks red and raw, 
When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, 
Then nightly sings the staring owl, 
“Tu-whit, Tu-whoo!”—
A merry note, 
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.


A song from The Tempest 

G D Em
Come unto these yellow sands,
C G B7
     And then take hands:
G D Em
Curtsied when you have, and kiss'd
     C G F
The wild waves whist,
G D Em
Foot it featly here and there;
C G B7
And, sweet sprites, the burthen bear.
A E
     Hark, hark! Bow-wow.
A E
     The watch-dogs bark. Bow-wow.
C#m 
     Hark, hark! I hear
D
     The strain of strutting chanticleer
A G C#7
     Cry, Cock-a-diddle-dow. 

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