"Unquiet Grave" Lesson
Added 2021-05-14 15:30:01 +0000 UTCI learned "Unquiet Grave" (Cold Blows the Wind, Child 78) from a 1960s recording of Hedy West & Doc Watson. This is an original arrangement for two finger banjo in 3/4 time.
gDGCD relative (eBEAB actual tuning):
Cold blows the wind my own true love
Cold blows the driving rain,
I never had but one true love
In the green wood he was slain.
I'll do as much for my true love
As anybody may,
I'll sit and weep all on his grave
For twelve months and a day.
When twelve months and a day had passed
The dead began to speak,
Saying who is this that mourns for me
And will not let me sleep?
One last kiss my own true love
One last kiss I crave,
Give me a kiss from your pale lips
And I'll go from your grave.
My lips are cold as clay true love
My breath is sulfur strong,
If you kiss my rotting lips
Your days will not be long.
Mourn not for me my own true love
Mourn not for me I pray,
For I must leave you all alone
And go down in my grave.
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