chordband » Josh Ritter » Silver Blade Live
[Intro]Am Am Am Am
[Verse 1]
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Oh, I have a silver blade,
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The edges sharp, the handle bone.
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A pretty thing of silver made,
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Now it's the only thing I own.
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Once I knew a lordling fine.
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I heard him whistle as he rode.
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And I was bold to call him mine.
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The shoes upon his horse were gold.
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[Verse 2]
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One look in my eyes and he,
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Bid me climb onto his horse.
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And asked if I'd his lady be,
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And go away for ever more?
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He spoke of love songs at each kiss,
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And I who was a young girl then,
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Was promissed every young girls bliss,
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Got up and rode away with him.
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He led me through his castle tall,
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With promises and jewels until,
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He led me through his castle hall,
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And took my clothes and worked his will.
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And when he had and I lay there,
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From my head with a silver blade,
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He cut a lock of my cold black hair,
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And bid me dress and go my way.
[Break]
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[Verse 3]
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But I marked well the silver blade,
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And where he laid it when he did,
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And when his back was turned away,
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I burried it beneath his ribs.
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I used the dagger as a spade,
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Where the thorns and lilacs grow.
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I cut the ground into a grave,
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In a place even God don't know.
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And every evening I returned,
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To the place for him I chose,
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Until his skin had turned to worms,
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Wild dogs scattered his bones.
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And all I have of what I was,
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Is the memory of a maid,
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Who mistook a thief for love,
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But who gained a silver blade.
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[Outro]
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Silver blade.
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