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Intro: D - G - D - G - D - A - D
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On either side of the river lie
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Long fields of barley and of rye,
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That clothe the world and meet the sky;
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And thro' the field the road run by
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To many-towered Camelot;
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And up and down the people go,
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Gazing where the lilies blow
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Round an island there below,
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The island of Shalott.
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A bow-shot from her bower-eaves,
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He rode between the barley sheaves,
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The sun came dazzling thro' the leaves,
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And flamed upon the brazen greaves
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Of bold Sir Lancelot.
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A red-cross knight for ever kneel'd
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To a lady in his shield,
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That sparkled on the yellow field,
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Beside remote Shalott.
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She left the web, she left the loom,
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She made three paces taro' the room,
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She saw the water-lily bloom,
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She saw the helmet and the plume,
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She looked down to Camelot.
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Out flew the web and floated wide;
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The mirror cracked from side to side;
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'The curse is come upon me,' cried
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The Lady of Shalott.
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Bm F#m
In the stormy east-wind straining,
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The pale yellow woods were waning,
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The broad stream in his banks complaining.
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Heavily the low sky raining
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Over towered Camelot;
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Down she came and found a boat
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Beneath a willow left afloat,
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And round about the prow she wrote
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The Lady of Shalott.
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Who is this? And what is here?
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And in the lighted palace near
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Died the sound of royal cheer;
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And they crossed themselves for fear,
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All the Knights at Camelot;
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But Lancelot mused a little space
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He said, 'She has a lovely face;
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God in his mercy lend her grace,
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The Lady of Shalott.'
Ending: D - G - D - A - D - G - D - A - D
Written by Loreena McKennitt/Alfred Lord Tennyson