Wat Tyler

E5 E5 You may have seen Wat Tyler E5 A5 When they threw him down below E5 And the peasant men, all twenty thousand of them G5 D5 E5 Were undone then in one blow E5 D5 C5 E5 And you may have seen them holler D5 C5 B5 And you may have seen them run E5 On that fateful day, as the old books say G5 D5 E5 That the good and the mighty won E5 Up rode young King Richard E5 A5 With a look so sly and cold E5 –God is mustering his clouds on our behalf G5 D5 E5 To strike at your children yet unborn E5 D5 C5 E5 And you will remain in bondage D5 C5 B5 Even harsher than before E5 You wretches of men throughout the land G5 D5 E5 Who will seek equality with your lords E5 Hear then brave Wat Tyler E5 A5 And the preacher mad John Ball E5 –It is from our labour G5 D5 E5 That they have the wherewithal E5 D5 C5 E5 To support their pomp and splendor D5 C5 B5 While we get nothing from them at all E5 But our meal of rye and water G5 D5 E5 And the refuse of the straw E5 E5 E5 E5 E5 E5 A5 A5 A5 E5 E5 E5 E5 E5 E5 A5 A5 A5 E5 E5 E5 If someone tries to tame you E5 A5 And to make of you their slave E5 And if you have no means to get the better of them G5 D5 E5 Then at least try to misbehave E5 D5 C5 E5 And you may have seen them holler D5 C5 B5 And you may have seen them run E5 On that fateful day, as the old books say G5 D5 E5 That the good and the mighty won E5 D5 C5 E5 And you may have seen them holler D5 C5 B5 And you may have seen them run E5 On that fateful day, as the old books say G5 D5 E5 That the good and the mighty won