Key: G major
Intro 1
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C
G
F
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D
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Verse 1
left their homes in
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G
Ireland's hills and dales
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A
D
America they sailed,
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C
A land of opportunity far from
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Far from history's sorrow an
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G
d nature's haunted reign.
They started up new lives and worked
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D
C
G
and raised their famil ies
They thought they'd never see
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D
again war and tyranny
Yankee
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D
North, but some went to the
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G
South
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G
They thought they'd never see again
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G
Hungers gaping now
Now
Growing up and onward to
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D
honest work and toil
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G
Heaven's brightest rays
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G
Trusting in the wisdom of
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C
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D
God's omniscient ways
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Then in the spring of 61,
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a fragile peace was shattered
The
North and
South could not
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D
agree, and war was all that mattered
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Aaron
Seed, those
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C
G
And on each respective side,
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Irish boys would die.
Upon the heights of
Fredericksburg,
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D
G
Two armies spent their haze.
There the men of
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A
D
Ireland would meet the strangest fate
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G
stood against each other
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D
G
Ireland and drew aim on their brothers
Now
No longer would it bloom and
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D
grow and foster a river
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G
their famine had begun
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G
For in the end they crossed themselves
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G
and went to meet the sun
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G
For in the end they crossed themselves
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C
C
C
and went to meet the sun.
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsG C F D A
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