The Weaver’s Song (from ACOMAF by Sarah J Maas)

There were two sisters They went playing To see their father’s ships Come sailing And when they came Unto the sea-brim The elder did push The younger in Sometimes she sank And sometimes she swam Til her corpse came To the miller’s dam F C Am E7 But what did he do With her breast bone He made him a viol To play on What’d he do With her fingers so small He made pegs To his viol with all And what did he do With her nose-ridge Unto his viol He made a bridge F C Am E7 What did he do With her veins so blue He made strings To his viol thereto What did he do With her eyes so bright On his viol He set at first light What did he do With her tongue so rough Twas the new till And it spoke enough Then bespake The treble string O yonder is My father the king Then bespoke The second string O yonder sits My mother the queen Then bespake T
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