St. Brendan's Fair Isle chords by
The Irish Rovers

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Key: D major

Intro 1

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Verse 1
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When I
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D D 
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was a lad on the Emerald Isle
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D D 
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I heard many stories
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both lovely and wild
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About the great dragons and
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D D 
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monsters that be
G G 
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D D 
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That swallow the ships when
they sail on the sea
Bm Bm 2
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Verse 2
G G 
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Though I  was an artist with canvas and paint
I sailed with St. Brendan
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and his jolly saints
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We told the good people
goodbye for a while
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A A 
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D D 
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We sailed for St. Brendan's fair isle,
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fair isle
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A A 
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D D 
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We sailed for St. Brendan's fair isle

Verse 3
D D 
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G G 
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D D 
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We'd been on the ocean for 94 days
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D D 
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When we came to a spot where
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the sea was ablaze
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Those demons from Hades
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were dancing with glee
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D D 
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And burning the sailors
alive on the sea
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Verse 4
G G 
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St. Brendan he walked on
the blistering waves
He threw those demons right
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back to their caves
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And all of the saints wore a heavenly smile
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We sailed.

Interlude 1

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Verse 5
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One night while the brethren
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D D 
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were lying asleep
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D D 
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A great dragon came up
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from under the deep
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He thundered and light'nend and
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D D 
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made a great din
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He awakened St. Brendan and
all of his men
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Verse 6
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The dragon came on with
his mouth open wide
We threw in a cross and
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the great dragon died
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We skinned him and cooked
him and feasted a while

Interlude 2
We sailed.
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G G 
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D D 
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A A 
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D D 
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G G 
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D D 
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G G 
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D D 
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Bm Bm 2
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D D 
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G G 
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D D 
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G G 
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D D 
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Bm Bm 2
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G G 
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D D 
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G G 
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D D 
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A A 
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D D 
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G G 
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D D 
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A A 
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Verse 7
D D 
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At last we came onto that beautiful land
We all went ashore and we
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walked on the sand
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We took our longbows and
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we killed a zebu
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D D 
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We roasted it up and had hot barbecue
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Verse 8
G G 
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And after a while we were singing this song
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We noticed the island was moving along
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We ate and we drank and
we rolled in great style

Interlude 3

We sailed.

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Verse 9
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D D 
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D D 
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St. Brendan said "Boys,
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D D 
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this is much to my wish
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D D 
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"To ride on the back of
Bm Bm 2
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the world's biggest fish
D D 
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"Hold on to the line that is
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D D 
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pullin' the ship
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D D 
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"We'll need it some day if
this fish takes a dip."
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Verse 10
D D 
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G G 
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We sailed every ocean
D D 
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G G 
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, we sailed every sea
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We sailed every spot that a sailor could be
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In 44 days we sailed 10 million
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A A 
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D D 
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G G 
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D D 
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A A 
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Bm Bm 2
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G G 
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miles
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A A 
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D D 
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G G 
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We sailed.