X: 11
T: Swordsman of the Sky [lute] (3:55)
C: The Lonely Mountain Band
Z: Astleigh
L: 1/8
Q: 180
K: C#minor

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% I met a traveller upon the Greenway road
| z2 g2 g2 g2 | g f f4 z e | f2 e2 f2 g2 | e8 |
% One night, on the way to Bree
| z2 e2 e4 | d2 d2 d2 d2 | e8 | z8 |

% From under hooded cloak, glowing ember and his pipe smoke
| z2 g2 g2 g2 | g f f4 e e | f2 e2 f2 g2 | e4 c4 |
% He called and hailed to me
| z2 e2 e2 e2 | d4 =c4 | c8 | z8 |

% Just then the dusk-wolf howled and I feared brigands on the road
| z2 g2 g2 g2 | g2 f2 b2 f f | f4 f g3 | e2 c2 c4 |
% And he looked fair enough to me
| z c e2 e4 | d2 d2 d2 g2 | e8 | z8 |

% So I drew my pony up, and I asked the rider his name
| z e g2 g2 g2 | g f f4 e e | f2 e2 f f g2 | e8 |
% This is what he said to me:
| z2 e e e2 e2 | d4 =c4 | c8 | z8 |

% I'm just a minstrel with a wandering horse
| z2 g2 g2 g2 | g2 c2 c2 c2 | g2 g b2 g3-| g5 z3 |
% Not all who wander are always lost
| g4 f2 e2 | f2 e4 e2 | f f3 f4 | z6 B2 | 
% I follow those stars there you see on high
| g4 f2 e2 | f4 f2 e2 | f2 b4 f2-| f6 z2 |
% That's the Swordsman of the Sky
| c4 c4 | c4 c4 | z4 c2 e2 | g8 |

% See war is coming on these gentle lands
| z2 g2 g2 g2 | g c3 c2 c2-| c4 g2 b2 | g8 |
% Long is the reach of dark hands
| g4 f2 e2 | f8 | z2 c2 f4 | f4 z2 c2 |
% I've come to warn your folk, these roads will soon be weary
| g3 f f2 e2 | f6 e2 | f2 e2 f2 e2 | f2 e4 c2 |
% Beneath marching boots of evil enemies
| e4 e2 e2 | e6 c2 | c2 c2 c B c2-| c6 z2 |

| z8 | z8 | z8 | z8 |
| z8 | z8 | z8 | z8 |

% The stranger's warspeech kindled dread in my soul
| z2 g2 g2 g2 | g2 f6 | f2 e2 f2 g2-| g2 e6 |
% Like the burning embers in his pipe-bowl
| z2 e e e2 e2 | d2 d2 d2 d2 | d2 c6 | z8 |

% Something in his voice, like a call to fate
| z2 g g g2 g2 | f8 | f2 e2 f2 g2-| g2 e6 |
% I asked him if it was too late
| z2 z e e2 e2 | d2 =c2 c2 c2 | c8 | z8 |

% To warn of what will be, can our folk remain free
| z g g g g g3 | f8 | f e3 f4 | g2 e2 e4 |
% This is what he said to me:
| z2 e e e2 e2 | d4 =c4 | c8 | z8 |

% I'm just a minstrel with a wandering horse
| z2 g2 g2 g2 | g2 c2 c2 c2 | g2 g b2 g3-| g5 z3 |
% Not all who wander are always lost
| g4 f2 e2 | f2 e4 e2 | f f3 f4-| f4 z2 B B |
% I can sing to you a great prophecy
| g4 f2 f2-| f2 e2 f4 | f2 f2 e2 f2-| f2 z6 |
% From beyond the Western Seas
| c4 c4 | c8 | z2 c2 e2 f2 | g8 |

% But stand fast, defend the people free
| z2 c2 g4 | g6 c2 | g2 f2 g b3 | g4 z2 c2 |
% The last battle is yet to be
| g4 f2 f2-| f6 e2 | f4 e2 f2-| f4 z2 B2 |
% I sing of hope in the shining belt on high
| g2 f6 | f4 f2 e2 | f2 e2 f2 e2 | f8 |
% Seek the Swordsman of the Sky
| z4 c2 c2 | c2 c6 | c4 e2 g2-| g8 |