Noreen Bawn chords by Daniel O'Donnell

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There's a glen,
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an old cheerconnel
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There's a cottage in that glen
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Where once dwelt an Irish Colleen
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Who inspired the hearts of men
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She was gentle, pale and hearty,
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shy and graceful as the fawn
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And the neighbours loved
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that widow's happy, laughing,
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gnawing bawn
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Then one day there came a letter
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With her passage paid to go
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To the land where the Missouri
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And the Mississippi flows
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So she said goodbye to Erin,
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and next morning at the dawn
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That poor mother, broken -hearted,
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parted with her Noreen
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Bond
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Many years the widow waited
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Till one morning to her door
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Slowly walked a graceful female
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Costly were the clothes she wore
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She said, Mother, don't you know me?
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I have only caught a cold
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But her cheeks were plushed and scarlet
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And another tale
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they told
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There's a graveyard in
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to your puddle
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Where the flowers gently wave
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There's a grey -haired mother kneeling
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O 'er a cold and  lonely grave
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Honouring, she is sighing
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It's been lonely since you've gone
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T 'was the curse of emigration
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Left you here,
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my Noreen Bar
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So you youths and tender maidens
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Ponder well before you go
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From your humble homes in Arran
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What's beyond you'll
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never know
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What's the use of gold and silver
when your health and
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strength are gone?
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When you speak of emigration
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won't you think of Noreen Bond?
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When you speak of emigration
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won't you think of Noreen Bond?
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