Key: D minor
Verse 1
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you speak of Erin's Isle
Her lofty scenes, her valley's green,
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her mountains rude and wild
Oh why did you abandon it
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the reason to me tell
Verse 2
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Oh
well do I remember
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that bleak December day
The landlord and the sheriff
came to drive us all away
He set my roof on fire,
when my rent I could not find
Interlude 1
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Verse 3
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Your mother too, god rest her soul,
She could not raise her body,
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seeing desolation around
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from life to mortal dream
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And found a quiet grave my boy in dear old
Interlude 2
skibbereen
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Verse 4
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And you were only two years old
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and feeble was your frame
I could not leave you with my friends,
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you bore your father's name
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I wrapped you in my cottamore, in
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the dead of night unseen
Interlude 3
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Verse 5
in answer to the call
Each irishmen with feeling
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stern will rally one and all
I'll be the man to lead the van
beneath our flag of green
Outro 1
And loud and high we'll raise a cry remember skibereen
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsAm C G Em
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