A-Tishoo/Bluebells/The Buckle [DE LA MARE poems set to music]
Channel: tobydarling
Date: 2020-02-05

A-TISHOO (Walter de la Mare)

Gmaj7 C G Am
`Sneeze, Pretty : sneeze, Dainty, 
Gmaj7 C G
Else the Elves will have you sure, 
Gmaj7 C G Am
Sneeze, Light-of-Seven-Bright-Candles, 
Bm Em A
See they're tippeting at the door ; 
Gmaj7 C G Am
Tiny feet in measure falling, 
Gmaj7 C G
All their little voices calling, 
Gmaj7 C G Am
Calling, calling, calling, calling —
Bm Em A Bm
Sneeze, or never come no more !' 
Em A B7
A-tishoo 


BLUEBELLS 

D G Em Am
Where the bluebells and the wind are, 
G Bm Am
Fairies in a ring I spied, 
G Em Am
And I heard a little linnet 
D G C
Singing near beside. 

Where the primrose and the dew are, 
Soon were sped the fairies all : 
Only now the green turf freshens, 
And the linnets call. 


THE BUCKLE 

D G/B C G
I had a silver buckle, 
D C G
I sewed it on my shoe, 
D G/B C G
And 'neath a sprig of mistletoe 
F G Am
I danced the evening through ! 

F G Am
I had a bunch of cowslips, 
Am D
I hid 'em in a grot, 
C G Am Em
In case the elves should come by night 
F G Am
And me remember not. 

I had a yellow riband, 
I tied it in my hair, 
That, walking in the garden, 
The birds might see it there. 

I had a secret laughter, 
I laughed it near the wall : 
Only the ivy and the wind 

May tell of it at all. 



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