Key: C# minor
Verse 1
Am
G#m
Am
Oh, Father dear,
B
G
I oft times hear you speak
B
Am
of Eden's Isle
B
Am
our mountains rude and wild
G#m
Am
C
To say it is a lovely land
B
E
Em
E
Am
wherein a prince might dwell
A
Am
B
Oh, why did you abandon it?
C
F#
G
Am
The reason to me tell
G#m
Am
A
Am
G#m
Oh, son, I love my native land
B
G#m
Am
with energy and pride
G#m
B
Till the blight came over all my crops,
F#
B
Am
my sheep and cattle died
G#m
B
My rent and taxes were too high,
F#
B
Am
I could not help them be jean
A
Am
And that's the cruel reason
B
C
G
B
Am
why I left old Skipperine
A
Am
A
E
B
Oh, well do I remember that
F#
G#m
Am
bleak Decem ber day
B
F#
B
Am
G#m
came to drive us all away
F#
Am
with their curses tingly -spleen
G#m
Am
An d that's another reason
B
F#
B
Am
why I left old Skibbereen
G#m
Am
G#m
Am
F#
G#m
Am
fell on the snowy ground
G#m
B
She fainted in her anguish,
F#
G
Am
see the desolation ground
G#m
B
She never long passed away,
G#m
Am
G#m
dream
A
Am
B
And found a quiet grave, my five,
F#
Am
in dear old Skipper Ream
G#m
Am
G#m
Am
A
B
And you were only two years old,
F#
G
Am
and Feeble was your friend
G#m
B
I could not leave you with my friends,
F#
G#m
Am
you bore your father's name
G#m
B
I wrapped you in my coat of mourn
G#m
Am
G#m
Am
G#m
I leaved a
Am
B
sigh an d bade goodbye
F#
Am
to dear old Skipper King
G#m
Am
B
Oh, Father dear, the day may come
F#
G#m
Am
When in answer to the call
G#m
B
Each Irish man with feelings stern
F#
G#m
Am
G#m
Will rally one and all
Am
G#m
I'll be the man to
F#
G
Am
Beneath the flag of green
F#
G
Am
Revenge must give all mean
You
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