Ariran chords by Pete Seeger
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Verse 1
About (D major) 400 years ago,
there was a (D major) very despotic (G major) emperor
in Korea.
(D major) He was hanging people right
and left who opposed him.
And the legend is that 10 ,000 people were
hung by him
(A major) from the top of a (D major) tall pine tree
on the top of the hill of Arirang,
which is outside Seoul.
One of the men condemned to death,
as he marched his last mile,
he sang a song saying
how much he loved (D major) his country,
how beautiful it was,
how he hated to say goodbye to it.
It was picked up by the (C major) other prisoners,
(D major) and it became a tradition in Korea
that (D major) any man ever condemned to death
had a right to sing this (A major) song
before (D major) his execution.
Well, like many a folk song,
it spread through the country,
it had verses added to it,
(A major) and different variations on the melody.
(D major) About 40 years ago,
when Japan took over Korea
and tried to make a colony out (D major) of it,
they abolished (D major) the singing,
made it a prison offense
to (B minor) sing the national (D major) anthem of Korea
or any patriotic songs.
And Arirang (D major) be came kind
of an unofficial anthem.
It was sung by the guerrillas
who fought in the hills
(G major) against the (D major) fascists.
And today it's sung in both
(D major) North and South (A flat major) Korea,
a symbol of unity
in an otherwise divided country. (D flat major) (D major)
(A flat major) Arir (D major) ang, Arirang, Arirang,
(D flat major) crossing the (D major) hills of Ari (D flat major) rang (D major) -o.
In my homeland of three thousand (A major) leagues,
(D major) peace and abundance will flower at last.
Arir (D flat major) ang, (D major) Arirang, (D flat major) Arir (D major) ang,
crossing the hills (D flat major) of Arir (D major) ang.
Oh, my countrymen,
(D flat major) why are your voices (D major) hushed,
only the water (B flat major) fall (D flat major) s and
fountains sing (D major) free?
A -dee -da (D major) -da -dee -da -da -da -dee (A major) -oh
(D major) Crossing the hills of (C sharp major) A
(D major) -dee -da -no (A major)
(D major) Numberless are the stars
blinking in the (A major) night
End (D major) less the sorrow we
know in (C sharp major) our life. (D major) (A flat major)
Arir (D flat major) ang, Arir (D major) ang, Ari (D flat major) r (D major) ang.
Cross (D flat major) ing (D major) the hills of (D flat major) Arirang.
Ariran
Pete Seeger
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