Key: E major
Verse 1
E
C#m
F#m
B
There's a glen,
E
A
E
an old cheerconnel
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B
E
Where once dwelt an Irish Colleen
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B
E
Who inspired the hearts of men
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E
A
E
She was gentle, pale and hearty,
F#m
B
And the neighbours loved
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F#m
that widow's happy, laughing,
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E
C#m
F#m
gnawing bawn
B
E
A
E
Then one day there came a letter
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E
A
With her passage paid to go
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B
E
To the land where the Missouri
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B
And the Mississippi flows
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B
E
A
E
So she said goodbye to Erin,
G#m
A
and next morning at the dawn
F#m
B
E
That poor mother, broken -hearted,
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B
parted with her Noreen
E
C#m
F#m
Bond
B
E
A
E
Many years the widow waited
G#m
A
Till one morning to her door
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B
E
Slowly walked a graceful female
F#m
B
E
Costly were the clothes she wore
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E
A
E
She said, Mother, don't you know me?
G#m
E
G#m
A
I have only caught a cold
F#m
B
E
But her cheeks were plushed and scarlet
F#m
B
And an other tale
E
C#m
F#m
they told
B
E
There's a graveyard in
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E
to your puddle
G#m
A
Where the flowers gently wave
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B
E
There's a grey -haired mother kneeling
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B
E
O 'er a cold and lonely grave
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E
A
E
Honouring, she is sighing
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B
E
T 'was the curse of emigration
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E
C#m
F#m
my Noreen Bar
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E
A
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So you youths and tender maidens
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B
E
From your humble homes in Arran
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E
never know
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E
What's the use of gold and silver
when your health and
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B
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When you speak of emigration
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B
E
won't you think of Noreen Bond?
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B
E
When you speak of emigration
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B
E
won't you think of Noreen Bond?
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