Dear old donegal chords by
Various

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Key: C major

Verse 1
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It seems like only yesterday
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I sailed from out of Cork
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A one hour from Aarons Isle
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I landed in New York
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C C 
 
There wasn't a soul to greet me there,
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C C 
 
a stranger on the shore
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C C 
 
But Irish luck was with me here
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G G 
 
and riches came galore
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So now I'm going back again
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C C 
 
to dear old Aarons Isle
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Am Am 
 
My friends will meet me on  the pier
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and greet me with a smile
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Their faces sure I've almost forgot,
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I've been so long away
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F F 
 
Am Am 
 
But me mother will introduce them all,
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and this to me she'll say
Shake hands with your uncle Mike,
me boy,
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and here's your sister Kate
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F F 
 
F#dim F#dim 
 
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And here's the girl     you used
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D D 
 
to swing down by the garden gate
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C C 
 
Shake hands with all of the neighbours,
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and kiss the colleagues all
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F F 
 
Am Am 
 
You're as welcome as the flowers in May
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G G 
 
C C 
 
Am Am 
 
F#dim F#dim 
 
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D D 
 
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to dear old Donegal
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There came Branigan, Flanagan,
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G G 
 
C C 
 
Milligan, Gilligan, Duffy, McGuffey, Malacky, Malone, Rafferty, Lafferty, Donnelly, Connelly, Dooley, O 'Hooley, Muldowney, Malone, Ryan, O 'Brien,
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D D 
 
G G 
 
C C 
 
G G 
 
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Herlanahan, Flanahan, Fagan, O 'Hagan, O 'Hoolahan, Flynn, Shanahan, Manahan, Forgerty, Hogarty, Kelly, O 'Kelly, McGinnis, McGinn
Shake hands with your Uncle Mike,
me boy,
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and here's your Sister Kate
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F F 
 
C C 
 
And there's the girl you used to
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D D 
 
swing down by the garden gate
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C C 
 
Shake hands with all of the neighbours,
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and kiss the collings all
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F F 
 
C C 
 
And we'll live content in pain,
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G G 
 
C C 
 
F F 
 
C C 
 
our Elton dear old Donny Goal

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