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Shamrock Shore by Karan Casey
Shamrock Shore
Tuning: E A D G B E
Capo: 4th fret
[Verse]
G Am
You brave young sons of Erin's Isle
G D
I hope you will attend awhile
G Am G D
'Tis the wrongs of dear old Ireland I am going to relate
G Am
'Twas black and cursed was the day
G D
When our parliament was taken away
G Am G D
And all our grieves and sufferings commences from that day
[Verse]
Em F
For our hardy sons and daughters fair
G F
To other countries must repair
G Am Bm C D
And leave their native land behind, in sorrow to deplore
Em F
To seek employment, they must roam
G F
Far, far away from their native home
G Am C G
From that sore, oppressed island that they call the shamrock shore
[Verse]
G Am
Now Ireland is with plenty blessed
G D
But the people, we are sore oppressed
G Am G D
All by those cursed tyrants we are forced for to obey
G Am
Some haughty landlords for to please
G D
Our houses and our lands they'll seize
G Am G D
To put fifty farms into one and chase us all away
[Verse]
Em F
Regardless of the widow's sighs
G F
The mother's tears and orphan's cries
G Am Bm C D
In thousands we were driven from home, which grieves my heart full sore
Em F
We were forced by famine and disease
G F
To emigrate across the seas
G Am C G
From that sore, oppressed island that they called the shamrock shore
[Verse]
G Am
Our sustenance all taken away
G D
The tithes and taxes for to pay
G Am G D
To support that law-protected church to which they do adhere
G Am
And our Irish gentry, well you know
G D
To other countries they do go
G Am G D
And the money from old Ireland, they squandered here and there
[Verse]
Em F
For if our squires would stay at home
G F
And not to other countries roam
G Am Bm C D
But to build mills and factories here to employ the labouring poor
Em F
For if we had trade and commerce here
G F
To me no nation could compare
G Am C G
To that sore, oppressed island that they call the shamrock shore
[Verse]
G Am
John Bull, he boasts, he laughs with scorn
G D
And he says that Irishman is born
G Am G D
To be always discontented, for at home we cannot agree
G Am
But we'll banish the tyrants from our land
G D
And in harmony like sisters stand
G Am C D
To demand the rights of Ireland, let us all united be
[Verse]
Em F
And our parliament in College Green
G F
For to assemble, it will be seen
G Am Bm C D
And happy days in Erin's Isle, we soon will have once more
Em F
And dear old Ireland soon will be
G F
A great and glorious country
G Am C G
And peace and blessings soon will smile all around the shamrock shore
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