D G D A Bm A
[Chorus]
D G D
Mother, mother, make my bed
A Bm A
Make for me a winding sheet
D G A Bm
Wrap me up in a cloak of gold
A Bm A Bm A
See if I can't sleep
D G D
Mother, mother, make my bed
A Bm A
Make for me a winding sheet
D G A Bm
Wrap me up in a cloak of gold
A Bm A Bm A
See if I can't sleep
[Post-chorus]
F#m Bm D F#m x2
[Verse 1]
D F#m D F#m
Four and twenty bonnie bonnie boys
B A
Playing at the ball
D F#m D F#m
Along came Little Sir Hugh
B C#
He played with them all
A
He kicked the ball very high
E Bm D
He kicked the ball so low
A E F#m E
He kicked it over the castle wall
A E F#m Bm D F#m
Where no-one dared to go
[Verse 2]
D F#m D F#m
Out came a lady gay
B A
She was dressed in green
D F#m D F#m
"Come in, come in, Little Sir Hugh,
B C#
Fetch your ball again"
A
"I won't come in, I can't come in
E Bm D
Without my playmates all"
A E F#m E
For if I should I know you would
A E A F#m Bm D F#m D A7
Cause my blood to fall"
[Chorus]
D G D
Mother, mother, make my bed
A Bm A
Make for me a winding sheet
D G A Bm
Wrap me up in a cloak of gold
A Bm A Bm A
See if I can't sleep
D G D
Mother, mother, make my bed
A Bm A
Make for me a winding sheet
D G A Bm
Wrap me up in a cloak of gold
A Bm A Bm A
See if I can't sleep
D A D A
[Verse 3]
D F#m D F#m B A
She took him by the milk white hand, and led him to the hall
D F#m D F#m B C#
Until they came to a stone chamber, where no one could hear him call
A E Bm D
She sat him on a golden chair, she gave him sugar sweet,
A E F#m E A E A F#m Bm D F#m
She lay him on a dressing board and stabbed him like a sheep
[Verse 4]
D F#m D F#m B A
Out came the thick thick blood, out came the thin
D F#m D F#m B C#
Out came the bonny heart's blood till there was none within
A E Bm D
She took him by the yellow hair, and also by the feet
A E F#m E A F#m Bm D F#m
She threw him in the old draw well, fifty fathoms deep
[Chorus]
D G D
Mother, mother, make my bed
A Bm A
Make for me a winding sheet
D G A Bm
Wrap me up in a cloak of gold
A Bm A Bm A
See if I can't sleep
D G D
Mother, mother, make my bed
A Bm A
Make for me a winding sheet
D G A Bm
Wrap me up in a cloak of gold
A Bm A Bm A
See if I can't sleep
D G D
Mother, mother, make my bed
A Bm A
Make for me a winding sheet
D G A Bm
Wrap me up in a cloak of gold
A Bm A Bm A
See if I can't sleep
