Key: F major
Intro 1
F
C
F
Bb
F
Verse 1
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My country men and hear
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F
my native news
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F
Although my song is sorrowful I
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Bb
F
I left my peaceful residence
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C
F
And I bid farewell to Donegal
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F
C
F
Likewise to Glenswilly
Verse 2
C
F
Some stalwart men around me stood
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F
Each comrade kind and true
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F
Bb
I said, "my fellow countrymen
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Bb
I hope you'll soon be free
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C
F
To raise the sunburst proudly o'er
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F
C
F
Bb
F
The hills of Glenswilly"
Verse 3
C
F
C
F
No more beside a sycamore I'll
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F
Hear the blackbird sing
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F
No more to me the blithe cuckoo
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Bb
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No more I'll plough your fertile fields
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C
F
For the foreign soil I'm doomed to toil
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F
Far far from Glenswilly
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It
Verse 4
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C
F
is these cruel English laws
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F
That curse our native isle
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F
Must Irish men always live like slaves
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Bb
There's not a man to strike a
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Bb
Blow or keep down tyranny
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C
F
Since Lord Leitrim like a dog was shot
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F
C
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Not far from Glenswilly
Verse 5
C
F
God bless ye, dark ol' Donegal
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My own dear native land
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grand but alas
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Three thousand miles that lie betwixt
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F
These hills and me i'm a poor
C
F
Forlorn exile cast far far
Bb
from Glenswilly
Outro 1
F
C
F
Bb
F
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsF C Bb
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