Key: G major
Verse 1
G
C
D
G
It was on a dreary
New Year's Eve
C
D
G
As the shades of night came down
C
G
A lorry load of volunteers
Em
C
Approached the border town
D
G
There were men from Dublin
C
G
and from Cork,
Em
C
D
Bermanagh and Tyrone
C
G
D
G
Chancel from Gowrie -o
And as they moved along the street
C
D
G
up to the Barrick Dome
They scorned the dangers
C
G
they would meet,
Em
C
D
their fate that lay in store
C
G
Ireland's cause,
Em
C
D
to claim their very own
G
D
G
And the foremost of the gallant band,
C
G
was south of Galray -on
But the sergeant fired their daring plan
C
G
D
G
Despite them through the door
C
G
In the Sten guns and the rifles too
Em
C
D
A hail of death it poured
Em
C
D
Two men were cold as stone
G
D
G
There was one from here, the Vardar,
C
D
G
and one from Galreor
D
G
D
G
No more you'll hear the seagulls cry,
C
G
D
G
or the rippling, murmuring tide
C
G
For he fell beneath the northern skies,
D
Em
C
D
brave O 'Hanlon by his side
G
C
G
He has gone to join that gallant band
Em
C
D
of plumbed with pierce and tongue
C
G
D
G
was sought from Galleon
And the matter firm, all dire,
C
D
and chastised, I'll carry on.
Outro 1
G
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsG C D Em
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