Speirs and Boden, also Bellowhead
Fakenham Fair

Standard Tuning: capo to suit, 3rd is suggested.

VERSE:
D (xx0232@1)     A (x02220@1)    D (xx0232@1)     G (320003@1)         D (xx0232@1)        G (320003@1)      AI (x02220@1)never really fell in love till I went up to Fakenham fair
D (xx0232@1)                A (x02220@1)         D (xx0232@1)      G (320003@1)    D (xx0232@1)         A (x02220@1)      DAnd (xx0232@1)chanced for to meet with a carnival girl a selling the fortunes there
G (320003@1)       F# (244322@1)       Em (022000@1)               A (x02220@1)    D (xx0232@1)    GTry (320003@1)for a lamp or a  Spanish shawl or a golden filigree
D (xx0232@1)         A (x02220@1)      D (xx0232@1)       G (320003@1)     D (xx0232@1)       A (x02220@1)         D (xx0232@1)
But all the time her eyes were saying 'come take a chance on me'

CHORUS:
G (320003@1)      F# (244322@1)       Em (022000@1)     ASo (x02220@1)swing around the merry-go-round
D (xx0232@1)                            GGive (320003@1)the wheel of fortune a whirl
D (xx0232@1)        A (x02220@1)      D (xx0232@1)      GThe (320003@1)finest prize at Fakenham fair
D (xx0232@1)           A (x02220@1)       DIs (xx0232@1)the pretty carnival girl

VERSE:
Her hair was brown and her eyes were blue and her lips they were soft and red
I'd never seen such a shape as hers and my eyes nearly popped from my head
For I was young and innocent oh but still even I could see
the way she smiled and winked my way said 'come take a chance on me'

*CHORUS*

VERSE:
My friends they said well she's not for you oh what will the old people think
But I took my chance and I won that girl just as quick as an eye could wink
And the finest day in all my life whatever may come to pass
Was the day i went up to Fakenham Fair and won me the carnival lass

*CHORUS*