Key: G# minor•
Intro 1
C#m
G#m
F#
G#m
D#m
C#m
D#m
Verse 1
F#
G#m
when I was pressed to sail afar
Leave behind the girl I love
D#m
E
In the town of Valnagut
E
G#m
C#m
You all may
guess at my distress
G#m
D#m
G#m
Lying in the nightingale
Grief and woe, that I must go
F#
G#m
And fight for England's king
I do not know, as friends of foe
D#m
E
A war's a cruel thing
F#
G#m
E
But I, alas, is brief
G#m
C#m
From the purling streams
and mountain rings
G#m
F#
G#m
I part with bitter grief
No more I'll walk the golden hills
F#
G#m
With Nancy by my side
Stroll along the sun -bright rills
Or view my land with pride
We sail away at dawn of day
E
C#m
While old Islet shore I see no more
G#m
D#m
C#m
E
G#m
C#m
Unpart with deep regret
G#m
D#m
G#m
D#m
E
G#m
C#m
D#m
C#m
and I must range
Across the ocean wide
A ship, she may in Biscay Bay
D#m
G#m
Be sunk beneath the tide
If I should fall by a cannibal,
spare my graying head,
and bring me back again,
I love far more my Antrim shore
F#
D#m
G#m
It's dark blue hills and glens
Round the fire but one desire
D#m
G#m
E
God granted life should fail
G#m
C#m
To keep me far from the cruel wars
G#m
D#m
E
An d from the nightingale
C#m
B
E
To keep me far
E
G#m
D#m
G#m
C#m
I'm from the night ingale
E
G#m
D#m
G#m
C#m
G#m
C#m
E
C#m
C#m
C#m
G#m
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