Kelly The Boy From Killane chords by Luke Kelly

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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What's the news, what's
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the news, O me bold Shelmalier
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With your long barrel guns
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from the sea?
Say, what wind from the south
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brings a messenger here
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With this hymn of the
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dawn for the free?
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Goodly news,
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goodly news do I bring youth of Forth
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Goodly news shall I hear Bargy man.
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For the boys march at morn
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from the south to the north
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Led by Kelly, the boy from Killane.

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Verse 2
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Tell me who is the giant with the
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gold curling hair
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He who rides at the head of your band.
Seven feet is his height with some
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inches to spare
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And he looks like a king in command.
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O me boys that's the pride of the
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bold Shelmalier
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'Mongst our greatest
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of heroes a man
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Fling your beavers aloft and give
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three ringing cheers
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For John Kelly,
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the boy from Killane.

Verse 3
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Enniscorthy is in flames
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and old Wexford is won
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And to morrow the barrow will cross
On the hill o'er the town
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we have planted a gun
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That will batter the gateway to Ross.
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All the Forth men and Bargy men will
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march o'er the heath
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With brave Harvey to lead in the van
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But the foremost of all in the
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grim gap of death
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Will be Kelly, the boy from Killane.

Verse 4
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But the gold sun of freedom
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grew darkened at Ross
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And it set by the Slaney's red wave...
And poor Wexford stripped naked
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hung high on a cross
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With her heart pierced by
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traitors and knaves.
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Glory- o, Glory- o to her
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brave men who died
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For the cause of long down-
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trodden man.
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Glory- o  to Mount- Leinster's
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own darling and pride
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Dauntless Kelly, the boy from Killane.