Mairi's Wedding

The High Kings

Key of G · Chords: I IV V

Chorus

G
Step we gaily, on we go
C             D
Heel for heel and toe for toe,
G
Arm in arm and row on row
C               D
All for Marie's wedding.

Chorus

G
Step we gaily, on we go
C             D
Heel for heel and toe for toe,
G
Arm in arm and row on row
C               D
All for Marie's wedding.

Verse 1

G
Over hillways up and down
C                        D
Myrtle green and bracken brown,
G
Past the sheilings through the town
C               D
All for sake of Marie.

Chorus

G
Step we gaily, on we go
C             D
Heel for heel and toe for toe,
G
Arm in arm and row on row
C               D
All for Marie's wedding.

Verse 2

G
Red her cheeks as rowans are
C                      D
Bright her eyes as any star,
G
Fairest o' them all by far
C              D
Is our darlin' Marie...

Chorus

G
Step we gaily, on we go
C             D
Heel for heel and toe for toe,
G
Arm in arm and row on row
C               D
All for Marie's wedding.

Chorus

G
Step we gaily, on we go
C             D
Heel for heel and toe for toe,
G
Arm in arm and row on row
C               D
All for Marie's wedding.

Verse 3

G
Plenty herring, plenty meal
C              D
Plenty peat to fill her creel,
G
Plenty bonny bairns as well
C                D
That's the toast for Marie.

Chorus

G
Step we gaily, on we go
C             D
Heel for heel and toe for toe,
G
Arm in arm and row on row
C               D
All for Marie's wedding.

Chorus

G
Step we gaily, on we go
C             D
Heel for heel and toe for toe,
G
Arm in arm and row on row
C               D
All for Marie's wedding.