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