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Dunlavin Green by Karan Casey
Dunlavin Green
Tuning: E A D G B E
Capo: 1st fret
[Intro]
Dm
[Verse 1]
C Dm
In the year of one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight
C Dm
A sorrowful tale, the truth unto you I'll relate
G A7 Dm Am Am7
Thirty-six heroes, to the world they were left to be seen
Dm Bb Am Dm
By a false information, were shot on Dunlavin Green
[Verse 2]
C Dm
Bad luck to you, Saunders, for you did their lives betray
C Dm
You said a parade would be held on that very same day
G A7 Dm Am Am7
Our drums, they did rattle, our fifes, they did sweetly play
Dm Bb Am Dm
Surrounded we were and privately marched away
[Verse 3]
C Dm
Quite easy they led us like prisoners through the town
C Dm
To be shot on the plain, we first were forced to kneel down
G A7 Dm Am Am7
Such grief and such sorrow were never before there seen
Dm Bb Am Dm
When the blood ran in the streams down the dykes of Dunlavin Green
[Verse 4]
C Dm
There is young Matty Farrell, who has plenty of cause to complain
C Dm
Likewise the two Duffys, who were shot down upon the plain
G A7 Dm Am Am7
Young Andy Ryan, his mother distracted, will run
Dm Bb Am G
For the loss of her darling, her only beloved son
[Verse 5]
C Dm
Some of our boys to the hills, they are going away
C Dm
Some of them shot and more of them going to stay
G A7 Dm Am Am7
Michael Dwyer in the mountains to Saunders, he owes a spleen
Dm Bb Am Dm
For loss of his brothers who were shot on Dunlavin Green
[Verse 6]
C Dm
Bad luck to you, Saunders, bad luck may you never shun
C Dm
May the widow's curse melt you like snow in the noonday sun
G A7 Dm Am Am7
Cries of the orphans, their murmurs you cannot screen
Dm Bb Am G
For the loss of their fathers who were shot on Dunlavin Green
[Verse 7]
Dm C Dm
In the year of one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight
C Dm
A sorrowful tale, the truth unto you I'll relate
G A7 Dm Am Am7
Thirty-six heroes, to the world they were left to be seen
Dm Bb Am Dm
By a false information, were shot on Dunlavin Green
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