The Bantry Girls' Lament chords by Jimmy Crowley
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Verse 1
(D major) For Johnny, lovely (A major) Johnny, (D major)
he's (A major) a -sailin' (D major) o 'er the main,
He's along with other pat (A major) riarch (D major) s
to (A major) fight the King (D major) of Spain. (G major) (A major)
(Asus4) (A major) (Asus4) (E minor)
Adam too (D major) will plough the fields now,
Adam too will settle the (A major) corn,
An (Asus4) (A major) d (D major) who will watch
the sheep now,
and keep them neatly (A major) shorn? (D major)
And the stack that's in the (G major) high gourd, (D major)
un (G major) trashed it (F sharp minor) may remain,
(E minor) Since (A major) (D major) Johnny went a -thrashin'
all
in the wars (A major) of Spain
(D major) And the girls from the Bono
in Storrow may re (A major) tire
An (E minor) (A major) d the (D major) piper and his bel (B minor) (D major) lows
go hum and (A major) blow his (D major) fire.
For Johnny, (G major) (F sharp minor) lovely Johnny, (Esus4) (D major)
he's a (G major) sailin' (F sharp minor) o 'er the (E minor) main.
He's (A major) along (D major) with other patriarch (G major) s
to fight (D major) the King (A major) of Spain (D major)
And the boys will surely mis (B minor) s him
when (D major) Money Moor comes (A major) round
(E minor) An (A major) d they (D major) grieve that their (B minor) brave (D major) captain
is nowhere to (A major) be found
(D major) And the peelers must stand (G major) idle
against (D major) (G major) their (F sharp minor) wheel and grain
(E minor) For (A major) the (D major) gallant boy
who gave him work
Now peels the (A major) king's
(D major) mane (A major) (Asus4) (A major)
And the twigs (D major) are hurling matches (B minor)
Your likes (D major) we'll seldom see
(A major) Till you'll (D major) come home again to us, (F sharp minor)
(D major) a -storying Gal (A major) Macree (D major)
And won't you trouble the (G major) Buckeyes, (D major)
who (G major) show us (F sharp minor) great esteem (E minor)
Be (A major) cause (D major) our eyes are not as bright
as (A major) (D major) those you'll (A major) meet in Spain (D major)
And if cruel fate
does not permit our Johnny to return
(A major) His (D major) heavy loss, we
Bantry girls (A major) will nev (D major) er cease (A major) to mourn
(D major) We'll resign ourselves to war, (G major)
sad loss, (D major)
and we'll (G major) die in (F sharp minor) grief and pain
(E minor) Since (A major) (D major) Johnny died for freedom's sake
in the foreign land (A major) of Spain. (D major)
(A major) (G major) (A major) (A major)
Okay, learned it from a woman
called Helene O'Donoghue,
who was the grandmother of one the lads in our band
Stoker's Lodge,
McMurphy's granny,
like so right away Salonica,
right away me soldier boy.
Are you with me?
Okay.
The Bantry Girls' Lament
Jimmy Crowley
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