Key: B major
Verse 1
B
F#
E
D#m
G#m
E
B
F#
Oh, then fare ye well,
E
B
G#m
E
B
sweet Donegal, the Rosses and Gweedore
F#
E
D#m
I'm crossing the main ocean,
E
B
G#m
F#
where the foaming billows roar
B
F#
E
D#m
It breaks my heart from you to part,
E
B
D#
F#
where I spent many happy days
C#sus4
F#
B
F#
E
D#m
Farewell to kind relation
G#m
E
s for I'm bound for America.
B
Verse 2
F#
E
B
Oh, then Mary, you're my hearts delight,
G#m
E
B
my pride and only care
F#
E
D#m
It was your cruel father would
E
B
G#m
F#
not let me stay there
B
F#
E
D#m
But absence makes the heart grow fond
E
B
D#
F#
and when I am over the main
B
F#
E
May the Lord protect my darling
D#m
G#m
E
girl till I return again.
B
Verse 3
G
C
G
F
C
Oh, I wished I was in sweet
Am
F
C
Dungloe and seated on the grass
G
F
Em
And by my side a bottle of wine
F
C
Am
G
and on my knee a lass
C
G
F
Em
F
I'd call for liquor of the best and I'd
C
E
D
Em
pay before I would go
D
C
G
F
Em
And I'd roll my Mary in my arms in
F
C
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