ballinderry chords by The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem
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Verse 1
(G major) 'Tis pretty to be in
(B minor) (G major) Ballinderry,
Pretty to be in (B minor) (G major) Aucholee*
'Tis prettier to be on (E minor)
(C major) bonny Ram's (G major) Island
A- sitting forever be (D major) neath a (G major) tree.
Ochone, (C major) (A minor) ochone (D major) (G major)
Ochone, (E minor) (A minor) ochone. (D major)
(G major)
Verse 2
For often I sailed to bonny
(D major) Ram's (G major) Island,
Arm in arm with Phelim,
my demon.**
He would whistle (C major) and I would sing, (G major)
And we (D major) would make the whole
(G major) island ring. (D major) (G major)
Ochone, (C major) (A minor) ochone (D major) (G major)
Ochone, (E minor) (A minor) ochone. (D major)
(G major)
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Verse 3
"I'm going," he said, (D major)
(G major) "from (C major) bonny Ram's (G major) Is land
Out and across (D major) the deep blue sea, (G major)
And if in your heart (C major) you love me,
Mary, (G major)
Open your (D major) arms at (G major) last to (D major) (G major) me."
Ochone, (C major) (A minor) ochone (C major) (G major)
Ochone, (E minor) (A minor) ochone.
(G major)
Verse 4
'Twas pretty to (D major) be in (C major) Ballinderry
But (D major) (G major) now it's as sad (D major) (C major) as sad (D major) can (G major) be,
For the ship that sailed (D major) (E flat minor) (C major) with Phelim,
my de (G major) mon,
Is sunk forever (B minor) (D major) (G major) be
(D major) neath the sea. (G major)
Ochone, ochone
Ochone, ochone.
Verse 5
* No one can seem to agree on the name of (C major)
this place. My sources
give "Aucholee," "Aghalee," and "Ahalee."
** Or perhaps "Phelim,
my diamond." (A minor) Another text reads simply
"Phelim, my love."
(D major) Recorded by
Verse 6
(G major) the Clancy Brothers,
by John Langstaff on "Let's Make
Music" (omitting the (C major) third verse), and
(A minor) by Bok Trickett Muir on
"The Language of the Heart" (with an admis
sion that they didn't
know the correct words).
(G major)
ballinderry
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem
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