The Wind That Shakes The Barley

Dm Gm Am Dm C Dm I sat within the valley green, I sat me with my true love Dm Gm Am Dm C Dm My sad heart strove the two between, the old love and the new love Dm C Bb A The old for her, the new that made me think on Ireland dearly Dm Gm Dm Am Dm C Dm While soft the wind blew down the glen and shook the golden barley Dm Gm Am Am C Dm 'Twas hard the woeful words to frame to break the ties that bound us Dm Gm Am Dm C Dm But harder still to bear the shame of foreign chains around us Dm C Bb A And so I said, "The mountain glen I'll seek at morning early Dm Gm Dm Am Dm C Dm And join the bold united men, while soft winds shake the barley" Dm Gm Am Dm C Dm While sad I kissed away her tears, my fond arms round her flinging Dm Gm Am Dm C Dm The foeman's shot burst on our ears from out the wildwood ringing Dm C Bb A A bullet pierced my true love's side in life's young spring so early Dm Gm Dm Am Dm C Dm And on my breast in blood she died while soft winds shook the barley Dm Gm Am Dm C Dm I bore her to some mountain stream and many's the summer blossom Dm Gm Am Dm C Dm I placed with branches soft and green about her blood-stained bosom Dm C Bb A I wept and kissed her clay-cold corpse then rushed o'er vale and valley Dm Gm Dm Am Dm C Dm My vengeance on the foe to wreak while soft wind shook the barley Dm Gm Am Dm C Dm But blood for blood without remorse I've taken at Oulart Hollow Dm Gm Am Dm C Dm And laid my true love's clay cold corpse where I here soon may follow Dm C Bb A As round her grave I wander drear, noon, night and early morning Dm Gm Dm Am Dm C Dm With breaking heart when e'er I hear the wind that shakes the barley Dm Gm Dm Am Dm C Dm With breaking heart when e'er I hear the wind that shakes the barley