God Save Ireland chords by
Luke Kelly
Luke Kelly

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Key: C major
Verse 1
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'God save Ireland!' said the heroes
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'God save Ireland' said they all
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Whether on the scaffold high
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Or the battlefield we die
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Oh, what matter when for
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Erin dear we fall!
Verse 2
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High upon the gallows tree swung
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the noble- hearted Three
By the vengeful tyrant
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stricken in their bloom
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But they met him face to face,
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with the courage of their race
And they went with souls un
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daunted to their doom
Verse 3
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'God save Ireland!' said the heroes
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'God save Ireland' said they all
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Whether on the scaffold high
Or the battlefield we die
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Oh, what matter when for Erin
dear we fall!
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(Verse Not In the Luke Kelly Collection) Girt around with cruel foes, still
Verse 4
their courage proudly rose
For they thought of hearts that
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loved them for and near
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Of the millions true and brave
o'er the ocean's swelling wave
And the friends in holy
Ireland ever dear
Verse 5
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Climbed they up the rugged stair,
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rang their voices out in prayer
Then with England's fatal
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cord around them cast
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Close beside the gallows tree
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kissed like brothers lovingly
True to home and faith and
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freedom to the last
Verse 6
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'God save Ireland!' said the heroes
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'God save Ireland' said they all
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Whether on the scaffold high
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Or the battlefield we die
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Oh, what matter when for
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Erin dear we fall!
Verse 7
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Never till the latest day shall
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the memory pass away
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Of the gallant lives thus given for our land
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But on the cause must go,
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amidst joy and weal and woe
Till we make our Isle a na
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tion free and grand
Verse 8
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God save Ireland! said the heroes
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'God save Ireland' said they all
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Whether on the scaffold high
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Or the battlefield we die
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Oh, what matter when for Erin dear we fall

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