I Held A Lady Chords & Lyrics - Gordon Bok

[INTRO]
[G] [Am] [G] [D] [G] [Am] [D]
[G] [D] [G/D] [D] [G/D] [D]
[G] [D]

[VERSE]
[G]I held a lady, [Am]oh laddie-daddie
[G]I held a lovely [D]brown-haired girl
[G]I held a lady, [Am]oh laddie-daddie
[D]I held a lovely brown-haired girl

[VERSE]
[G]I know that she was [D]warm
For I [G]held her and [D]touched her
I [G/D]held her so [D]long, it was lovely
Holding her against my [G]body [D] [G] [D]

[VERSE]
[G]I see her laughing, [Am]I see her smiling
[G]I feel her arms a[D]round me
From [G]morning, when sun is [Am]shining, till evening
[D]Even when night is falling down

[VERSE]
[G]All down the calling [D]way
Calling [G]you, young [D]lady
For [G/D]you, brown-haired, [D]oh laddie-daddie
Diddley-eye dadden-adda, [G]lady [D] [G] [D] [G] [D]

[VERSE]
[G]Oh, I remember, [Am]how I remember
[G]Old days, when I was [D]young days
When [G]I held a lady, [Am]oh laddie-daddie
[D]I held a lovely brown-haired girl

[VERSE]
[G]Old days are dead-and-[D]gone days
A[G]live in the [D]morning
A[G/D]live in the [D]sun, laddie-daddie
Diddley-eye adden-daddle, [G]lady [D] [G] [D]

[INSTRUMENTAL]
[G] [D] [G] [D] [G/D] [D]
[G] [D] [G/D] [D] [G/D] [D]
[G] [D]

[VERSE]
[G]Red lips that love at [Am]my lips, a heart and
[G]Thigh, hips and legs and [D]eyes, slips
A[G]way in the dawning [Am]day, laddie-awning
[D]I looks along the old road

[VERSE]
That [G]old Sally Noggin [D]Bog road
Where [G]I held a [D]lady
Where [G/D]I held a [D]lovely, adden-dadden
Diddley-eye dadden-addle, [G]lady [D] [G] [D]

[VERSE]
[G]Oh, I remember, [Am]how I remember
[G]Old days, when I was [D]young days
When [G]I held a lady, [Am]oh laddie-daddie
[D]I held a lovely brown-haired girl

[VERSE]
[G]Old days are dead-and-[D]gone days
A[G]live in the [D]morning
A[G/D]live in the [D]sun, laddie-daddie
Diddley-eye adden-daddle, [G]lady [D] [G] [D] [G]