Lily Of Barbary

	  		
Intro Bm D (4x) 


Verse 

Bm               D                  Bm                
Just a cabin boy on a Whitby trader, Mediterranean Sea,  
D 
Bound for Malta strand 
Bm                  G 
The 15th day of June 1680,  
D          A           G 
The day my second life began. 


Verse 

Bm               D                  Bm 
We were caught and boarded by a Moorish galley,  
                   D 
The battle short, the outcome clear 
Bm                       G                  
My shipmates died in pain, only I was spared  
D          A           G 
And sold in a market in Algiers 

A                             G 
They say the fates of men are written on the wind  
A                             G 
no-one knows where they may blow 
Bm               D          A      G 
I was taken in chains by a Barbary corsair  
D         G          A 
it was in Barbary I found  
            G 
my Lily fair. 


FILL FOR IN-BETWEEN VERSE and Chorus (G chord into A chord)
 



Verse 

Bm               D                  Bm         
But luck was with me, I found a kindly master  
                   D 
Learned to serve him and I served him well 
Bm                    G                
And with my new name, clothes and language,  
D          A           G 
I thought little of my homeland, truth to tell 
Bm               D                  Bm   
And when my master died his testament did free me, 
                   D 
With a gift of gold besides 
Bm                   G                    
I became a merchant, a man of consequence,  
D          A           G 
With everything a rich mans life provides 

A                             G 
They say the fates of men are written on the wind  
A                             G 
no-one knows where they may blow 
Bm               D          A      G 
I was taken in chains by a Barbary corsair  
D         G          A 
it was in Barbary I found  
            G 
my Lily fair. 


Verse 

Bm               D                  Bm   
Then one day in the slavers market, wide-eyed and trembling,  
                   D 
There among the goods on show 
Bm                        G                  
A frightened Cornish girl, snatched from hearth and home,  
D          A           G 
And pity in my heart did overflow 
Bm               D                  Bm   
So I sent for gold and I bought her freedom,  
                   D 
Gave her shelter in my home 
Bm                        G 
And in a few short weeks, love between us grew,  
D          A           G 
From each others side we swore we'd never roam 

A                             G 
They say the fates of men are written on the wind  
A                             G 
no-one knows where they may blow 
Bm               D          A      G 
I was taken in chains by a Barbary corsair  
D         G          A 
it was in Barbary I found  
            G 
my Lily fair. 


Verse 

Bm               D                  Bm   
But she missed her home, she missed her family,  
                   D 
Missed the deep green hills of England's shore 
Bm                        G 
So I knew I must leave my home of twenty years,  
D          A           G 
For I couldn't live without her anymore 
Bm               D                  Bm   
Now before the wind, bound for northern waters,  
                   D 
Watching Barbary's coast subside 
Bm                        G 
Though no man may know just what the future holds, 
D          A           G 
I'll sail with Lily by my side 

A                             G 
They say the fates of men are written on the wind  
A                             G 
no-one knows where they may blow 
Bm               D          A      G 
I was taken in chains by a Barbary corsair  
D         G          A 
it was in Barbary I found  
            G 
my Lily fair.