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  13 <h1 class="songtitle">The Two Sisters</h1>
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  15
  16 <p>Trad.<br />
  17 Played by Bob Dylan on the <em>Karen Wallace Tape</em> (May 1960)<br />
  18 Tabbed and transcribed by Eyolf &Oslash;strem</p>
  19
  20 <p>Either the tape is slow or the guitar is low (half step): the sounding
  21 key is B major, but the chords are from the C family</p>
  22
  23 <p>The consistent use of the F/a (x03211) chord might imply some kind of
  24 altered tuning (dropped c) or a capo, but then one might expect to
  25 hear the low bass string, which is not the case.</p>
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  29 <pre class="verse">
  30       C                     F/a        C
  31 There was an old lady lived by the sea shore
  32                    F/a
  33 Bow and balance to be,
  34       C          F/a        C          F/a
  35 There was an old lady lived by the sea shore
  36 G7                      C
  37 number of daughters was one two three four
  38      F/a C          F/a
  39 I'll be  true to my love
  40       G7                   C
  41 if my love will be true to me.
  42
  43 There was a young man who came courting them
  44 The oldest one got struck on him
  45
  46 He gave the youngest a beaver hat
  47 The older one got mad at that.
  48
  49 O sister, O sister let's walk the sea shore
  50
  51 [tape cut]
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  55
  56 <p>Additional verses (source: Alan Lomax &ndash; thanks to Simon)</p>
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  58 <pre class="verse">
  59 O sister, O sister let's walk the seashore
  60 and watch the ships as they sail oer
  61
  62 While these two sisters were walking the shore
  63 the oldest pushed the youngest oer
  64
  65 O sister, O sister please lend me your hand
  66 and you will have Willie and all of his land
  67
  68 I never, I never will lend you a hand
  69 but I will have Will and all of his land
  70
  71 Sometime she sank and sometime she swam
  72 until she came to the old mill dam
  73
  74 The miller got his fishing hook
  75 and fished the maiden out of the brook
  76
  77 O miller, O miller here's five gold rings
  78 to push the maiden in again
  79
  80 The miller recieved those five gold rings
  81 and pushed the maiden in again
  82
  83 The miller was hung as his mill gate
  84 for drowning little sister Kate
  85 </pre>
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  88
  89 <p>Yet another possible continuation, from the Mudcat Cafe:</p>
  90 <pre class="verse">
  91 He gave the youngest a gay gold ring
  92 The older, not a single thing.
  93
  94 But when they reached the water's brim
  95 The oldest pushed the yougest in.
  96
  97 O sister, O sister, O give me your hand
  98 And you may have my house and land.
  99
 100 I will not give you my hand nor my glove
 101 But I will have your own true-love.
 102
 103 Down she sank and away she swam
 104 And down to the miller's mill-pond she swam.
 105
 106 O miller, O miller, there swims a swan
 107 A-swimming about in your mill-pond.
 108
 109 The miller ran out with his fish-hook
 110 And fished that fair maid out of the brook.
 111
 112 He's robbed her of her gay gold rings
 113 And into the pond he's pushed her again.
 114
 115 The miller was hung at his mill gate
 116 For drowning of his sister, Kate.
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