Are You Sleeping Maggie Chords

KeyEm CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays589

Are You Sleeping Maggie by Wild Silk is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of Em. It uses the chords Em, D and G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
Em
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  			Verse 
 Em            D 
Mirk and rainy is the night, 
 G             D    G       Em 
there's no a staurn in the carry 
 Em                D 
Lichtnin's gleam athwart the lift 
G         D       G            Em 
And cauld winds drive wi' winters fury 

Chorus 
Em 
  Oh, are you sleeping, Maggie 
     D 
Oh, are you sleeping, Maggie 
Em              D        Em 
Let me in, for loud the linn 
       G         D       G          Em 
Is howling over the warlock Craigie 

Verse 
Em              D 
Fearfu' soughs the boortree bank 
G           D          G         Em 
The rifted wood roars wild and dreary 
Em              D 
Loud the iron yett does clank 
G          D       G        Em 
he cry of hoolits mak's me eerie 

Chorus 
Em 
  Oh, are you sleeping, Maggie 
     D 
Oh, are you sleeping, Maggie 
Em              D        Em 
Let me in, for loud the linn 
       G         D       G          Em 
Is howling over the warlock Craigie 

Verse 
Em                  D 
Abune ma breath, I daurnae speak 
G           D           G       Em 
For fear I rouse your waukrife Daddy 
Em                  D 
Cauld's the blast upon my cheek 
G          D       G      Em 
O rise, o rise my bonnie lady 

Chorus 
Em 
  Oh, are you sleeping, Maggie 
     D 
Oh, are you sleeping, Maggie 
Em              D        Em 
Let me in, for loud the linn 
       G         D       G          Em 
Is howling over the warlock Craigie 

Verse 
Em                       D 
She's ope'd the door, she's let him in 
G             D         G       Em 
She's cuist aside his dreepin plaidie 
Em                D 
Blaw yer warst ye rain and wind 
G           D          G     Em 
For Maggie noo I' min aside ye 

Final

 Chorus 
Em 
  Noo, since your waukin' Maggie 
     D 
Noo, since your waukin' Maggie 
Em         D       Em 
What care I for hoolits cry 
  G           D           G       Em 
For boortree bank or the warlock Craigie 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante