This tab has the chords to all of the songs possible, and for the rest it has tabs.
1. Prelude
2. The Hazards of Love 1(The Prettiest Whistles Won't Wrestle the Thistles Undone)
3. Bower Scene
4. Won't Want For Love(Margaret in the Taiga)
5. The Hazards of Love 2(Wager All)
6. The Queen's Approach
7. Isn't it a Lovely Night
8. The Wanting Comes in Waves/Repaid
9. An Interlude
10. The Rake's Song
11. The Abduction of Margaret
12. The Queen's Rebuke/The Crossing
13. Annan Water
14. Margaret in Captivity
15. The Hazards of Love 3(Revenge!)
16. The Wanting Comes in Waves(Reprise)
17. The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned)
1. Prelude
I am tabbing this song from 1:37 onward because before that it is just one or two
notes. The note before that is played in different octaves.
Synthesizer (1:34-2:28) Viola(2:29-End)
2. The Hazards of Love 1(The Prettiest Whistles Won't Wrestle the Thistles Undone)
Originally Tabbed by: Cassaroll168
DROP
My true love went riding out in white and green grey
Past the pale of Arthur's wall, where she was wont to stray
And there she came upon a white and wounded fawn
Singing Oh oh, the hazards of love
She being full of charity, a credit to her sex
Sought to right the fawn's hind leg, when here her plans were vexed
The Taiga shifted strange, the beast began to change
Singing Oh oh, the hazards of love
Singing Oh oh, the hazards of love
You'll learn soon enough
The prettiest whistles won't wrestle the thistles undone, undone
Fifteen lissome maidens lay, along in their bower
Fourteen occupations paid, to pass the idle hour
Margaret heaves a sigh, her hands clasped to her thighs
Singing Oh oh, the hazards of love
Singing Oh oh, the hazards of love
You'll learn soon enough
The prettiest whistles won't wrestle the thistles undone, undone
Undone, undone, undone
3. Bower Scene
Originally tabbed by: DonTago
In all of the places I have the riff, you can just play the chord. Played in
drop with the chord formations like this:
The * is where you cannot play the riff.
* * * *
And what irascible black Bart is the father
And so our heroine withdraws to the Taiga
* * * * * * * *
4. Won't Want for Love (Margaret in the Taiga)
Originally tabbed by: DonTago
DROP
Gentle leaves, gentle leaves, please array a path for me
The wood's all growing thick and fast around |2-4-4-5|
Columbine, columbine, please alert this love of mine
And all this stirring inside my belly won't quell my want for love |2-4-4-5|
And I may swoon from all this swelling but I won't want for love
Mistle Thrush, Mistle Thrush, lay me down in the underbrush
My naked feet grow weary with the dusk |2-4-4-5|
Willow boughs, willow boughs, make a bed to lay me down
And all this stirring inside my belly won't quell my want for love |2-4-4-5|
And I may swoon from all this swelling but I won't want for love
Oh my own true love, oh my own true love |5-5-5-3-3-3-1-1-1|
BRIDGE
And all this stirring inside my belly won't quell my want for love |2-4-4-5|
And I may swoon from all this swelling but I won't want for love
Won't want for love Won't
want for love Won't want for love
5. The Hazards of Love 2 (Wager All)
Drop
And here I am, softer than a shower
And here I am, to garland you with flowers
PRE-CHORUS
To lay you down, in clover bed
The stars a roof above our heads
And all my life, I never felt a tremor
And all my life, that now disturbs my fingers
PRE-CHORUS
To lay you down, in clover bed
The stars a roof above our heads
And we'll lie 'till the Corn Crake crows
Bereft of the weight of our summer clothes
And I'd wager all, the hazards of love, the hazards of love
And take my hand and cradle it in your hand
And take my hand to feel the pull of quicksand
PRE-CHORUS
To lay you down, in clover bed
The stars a roof above our heads
And we'll lie 'till the Corn Crake crows
Bereft of the weight of our summer clothes
And I'd wager all, the hazards of love, the hazards of love
The hazards of love, the hazards of love, oh
6. The Queen's Approach
Originally tabbed by: monoxianx
DROP
7. Isn't it a Lovely Night?
DROP
|2-4-4-4-4-5-2-2-4-4-4-4-5-2-2-4-4-4-4-5-2-2-4|
Is-n't it a lov-ely night?
And so a-live with fi-re-flies pro-vi-ding us their ho-ly light
And here we made our bed of boughs
And this-tle down that we had found to lay up-on the de-wy ground.
And is-n't it a love-ly way We got in from our play
Isn't it babe? A sweet little baby
|2-4-4-4-4-5-2|
And was-n't it a love-ly breeze
That swept the leaves of ar-bor eaves and bent to brush our blush-ing knees
|2-4-4-4-4-5-2|
And here we died our lit-tle deaths
And we were left to catch our breath so swift-ly lift-ing from our chests
|2-4-4-4-4-5-2|
And is-n't it a love-ly way We got in from our play
Isn't it babe? A sweet little baby |2-4-4-4-4-5-2|
7. The Wanting Comes in Waves
NORMAL TUNING
Mo-ther I can hear your foot-fall, now
Soft dis-tur-bance in the dead fall
How it pro-ceeds you like a black smoke pall
Still the wan-ting comes in waves
And you de-liv-ered me from dan-ger
Then pulled my cra-dle from the ree-dy glen,
Swore to save me from the world of men,
Still the wan-ting comes in waves,
In waves
And waves Oooooh
And the wanting comes in waves Oooooh
And the wanting comes in waves Oooooh
And I want this night
And I want this night
N..
Oh
Ohh I made you, I wrought you, I pulled you
From war I labored you, from cancer I harbored you
And now
This is how I am repaid
This is how I am repaid
Remember, when I found you
The miseries that hounded you
And I gave you motion
Anointed you with lotion
And now
This is how I am repaid
This is how I am repaid
Mo-ther, hear this pro-pos-it-ion, right
Grant me free-dom to en-joy this night
And I'll re-turn to you at break of light
Still the wan-ting comes in waves,
In waves
And waves Oooooh
And the wanting comes in waves Oooooh
And the wanting comes in waves Oooooh
And you owe me life
And you owe me life
N..
Oh
And if I grant you this favor, to hand you
Your life for the evening I will retake by morning
And so
Consider it your debt repaid
Consider it your debt repaid
Repaid
Repaid
9. An Interlude
DROP
Originally tabbed by: Stormx
10: The Rake's Song
Adapted from the tab by: Sandlas Juagas
NORMAL TUNING
( ) x4
I had entered into a marriage
In the summer of my twenty-first year
And the bells rang for our wedding
Only now do I remember it clear
Alright, alright, alright
( ) x2
No more a rake and no more a bachelor
I was wedded and it whetted my thirst
Until her womb start spilling out babies
Only then did I reckon my curse
Alright, alright, alright
Alright, alright, alright
( ) x4
First came Isaiah with his crinkled little fingers
Then came Charlotte and that wretched girl Dawn
Ugly Myfanwy died on delivery
Mercifully taking her mother along
Alright, alright, alright
( ) x2
What can one do when one is widower
Shamefully saddled with three little pests
All that I wanted was the freedom of a new life
So my burden I began to divest
Alright, alright, alright
Alright, alright, alright
Charlotte I buried after feeding her foxglove
Dawn was easy, she was drowned in the bath
Isaiah fought but was easily bested
Burned his body for incurring my wrath
Alright, alright, alright
( )x2
And that's how I became your humble narrator
To be living so easy and free
Expect that you think that I should be haunted
But it never really bothers me
Alright, alright, alright
Alright, alright, alright
The Abduction of Margaret
DROP
In all of the places I have the riff, you can just play the chord. Played in
drop with the chord formations like this:
The * is where you cannot play the riff.
* * * *
Our heroine here falls prey to her abductor
Our villain must calculate crossing the wild river
12.The Queen's Rebuke/The Crossing
Adapted from tab by: Stormx
( )x4
Iiiii'mmmmmm made of bones of the branches,
The boughs, and the brow-beating light
Oh, my feet are the trunks and my head is the canopy high
And my fingers extend to the leaves and the eaves and the bright
Brightest shine, it's my shine
( )x2
And heeeeee was a baby, abandoned entombed in a cradle of clay
And I was the soul that took pity and stole him away
And gave him the form of a fawn to inhabit by day
Brightest day, it's my day
( )x6
And yoooouuuu have removed this temptation that's troubled my innocent child
To abduct and abuse and to render her rift and defiled
But the river is deep to the banks and the water is wild
But I will fly you to the far side
( ) x4
( ) x3
13. Annan Water
Annan water, you loom so deep and wide
I would cross over if you would stem the tide
Or build a boat that I might ford the other side
To reach the farther shore where my true love lies in wait for me
In wait for me, in wait for me, in wait for me
Oh, great river, your waters ramble wild
The horses shiver and bite against the bridle
But I will cross if mine own horse is pulled from me
Though my mother cries that if I try I sure will drowned be
Will drowned be, will drowned be, will drowned be
But if you calm and let me pass
You may render me a wreck when I come back
So calm your waves and slow the churn
And you may have my precious bones on my return
Annan water, oh hear my true love's call
Hear her holler above your water's pall
God, that I could that my two arms could give me wings
And I would cross your breadth and rest my breast about her amber ring
Her amber ring, her amber ring, her amber ring
But if you calm and let me pass
You may render me a wreck when I come back
So calm your waves and slow the churn
[start verse tabs here]
And you may have my precious bones on my return
On my, on my return
14. Margaret In Captivity
Originally tabbed by: DonTago
Play 5x (until "kickstand")
Then play:
I have snipped your wingspan, my precious captive swan
Here all clipped of kickstand, your spirit won't last long
Play 5x (until "akimbo")
Then play:
Don't you lift a finger, don't you snap and jaw
Limber limbs akimbo, rest till rubbing raw
Can you hear me, love? Can you hear me, love?
Play 5x (until "wrecked you")
Then play:
Don't hold out for rescue, none can hear your call
Till I have wrest and wrecked you, behind these fortress walls
15. The Hazards of Love 3 (Revenge!)
NORMAL TUNING
Father I'm not feeling well,
The flowers me you fed
Tasted spoiled for sudden-ly
I find that I am dead
But father don't you fear,
Your children all are here
N..
Singin ohhhh ohhh the hazards of love
N..
Father turn the water down the basin's overflowed
The water covers everything
And me left all alone
But father, here in death,
I have regained my breath
To sing ohhhh ohhh the hazards of love
To sing ohhhh ohhh the hazards of love
Spare the rod, you spoil the child
But I prefer the lash
My sisters, drowned and poisoned all
And me reduced to ash
And buried in an urn,
But father I've returned
N..
Singin ohhhh ohhh the hazards of love
N..
Singin ohhhh ohhh the hazards of love
The hazards of love
The hazards of love
16. The Wanting Comes In Waves Reprise
NORMAL TUNING
And here come the waves ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
And the wanting comes in waves ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
And the wanting comes in waves ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
And the wanting comes in waves
( ) x4
And I want this night...
17. The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowning)
NORMAL TUNING
Originally tabbed by: DonTago
Margaret arrayed the rocks around the hull before it was sinking
A million stones, a million bones, a million holes within the chinking
And painting rings around your eyes these peppered holes
So filled with crying
A whisper weighed upon the tattered down where you and I were lying
Tell me now, tell me this, forest's son, a river's daughter
A willow on the willow wisp, our ghosts will wander all of the water
So let's be married here today these rushing waves to bare our witness
And we will lie like river stones rolling only where it takes us
But I pulled you and I called you here (Didn't I, didn't I, didn't I?)
And I caught you and I brought you here (Didn't I)
These hazards of love, never more will trouble us
Oh Margaret the lapping waves are licking quietly at our ankles
Another bow another breath this brilliant chills come for the shackle
With this long last rush of air we speak our vows and sorry whispers
When the waves came crashing down, he closed his eyes and softly kissed her
But I pulled you and I called you here (Didn't I, didn't I, didn't I?)
And I caught you and I brought you here (Didn't I)
These hazards of love, never more will trouble us
And these hazards of love, never more will trouble us
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