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C G Walking all the day F C F G C Near tall towers where falcons build their nests G Silver-winged they fly Dm Am F G C They know the call of freedom in their breasts F Gsus G Saw Black Head against the sky C Am C F G With twisted rocks they run down to the sea F G C Am C F G Living on your western shore, saw summer sunsets, asked for more F G C G Dm Am F G C I stood by your Atlantic Sea, - and sang a song for I-re-land C G Talking all the day F C F G C With true friends who try to make you stay G Telling jokes and news Dm Am F G C Singing songs to pass the night away F Gsus G Watched the Galway salmon run C Am C F G Like silver dancing, darting in the sun F G C Am C F G Living on your western shore, saw summer sunsets, asked for more F G C G Dm Am F G C I stood by your Atlantic Sea, - and sang a song for I-re-land C G Drinking all the day F C F G C In old pubs where fiddlers love to play G Someone touched the bow Dm Am F G C He played a reel which seemed so grand and gay F Gsus G Stood on Dingle Beach and cast C Am C F G In wild foam we found Atlantic bass F G C Am C F G Living on your western shore, saw summer sunsets, asked for more F G C G Dm Am F G C I stood by your Atlantic Sea, - and sang a song for I-re-land C G Dreaming in the night F C F G C I saw a land where no one had to fight G Waking in your dawn Dm Am F G C I saw you crying in the morning light F Gsus G Lying where the falcons fly C Am C F G They twist and turn all in your air-blue sky F G C Am C F G Living on your western shore, saw summer sunsets, asked for more F G C G Dm Am F G C I stood by your Atlantic Sea, - and I sang a song for I-re-land ================================================================== Track 2 - Mo Ghile Mear CAPO: 4th Fret C G Am C Se mo laoch mo ghile mear F C Am G 'Se mo chaesar, ghile mear C G C Am Ni fhuaras fein aon suan ar sean C Am G C O chuaigh i gcein mo ghile mear Em Dm7 C Bimse buan ar buairt gach lo Am Em Dm7 G Ag gui go crua 's ag tuar na ndeor C Em Dm7 C Mar scaoileadh uainn an buachaill beo Dm7 C Am G 'S na riomhtar tuairisc uaidh, mo bhron C G Am C Se mo laoch mo ghile mear F C Am G 'Se mo chaesar, ghile mear C G C Am Ni fhuaras fein aon suan ar sean C Am G C O chuaigh i gcein mo ghile mear Em Dm7 C Ni haoibhinn cuach ba suairc ar neon Am Em Dm7 G Taid fiorchaoin uasal ar uaithne sport C Em Dm7 C Taid saoite suaite i mhuairt 's i mbron Dm7 C Am G O scaoileadh uainn an buachaill beo C G Am C Se mo laoch mo ghile mear F C Am G 'Se mo chaesar, ghile mear C G C Am Ni fhuaras fein aon suan ar sean C Am G C O chuaigh i gcein mo ghile mear Em Dm7 C Nil seis go suairc ar chruachruit ceoil Am Em Dm7 G Ta an eigse i ngruaim gan uaim na meabhair C Em Dm7 C Taid beathaithe buan ar buairt gach lo Dm7 C Am G O thearnaigh uainn an buachaill beo C G Am C Se mo laoch mo ghile mear F C Am G 'Se mo chaesar, ghile mear C G C Am Ni fhuaras fein aon suan ar sean C Am G C O chuaigh i gcein mo ghile mear Em Dm7 C Ni mhaoifad fein ce he mo stor Am Em Dm7 G Ta insint sceal ina dhiaigh go leor C Em Dm7 C Ach guim chuigh m'aon mhic de na gcomhacht Dm7 C Am G Go dteigh mo laoch gan baol beo C G Am C Se mo laoch mo ghile mear F C Am G 'Se mo chaesar, ghile mear C G C Am Ni fhuaras fein aon suan ar sean C Am G C O chuaigh i gcein mo ghile mear ================================================================== Track 3 - Men Of Worth G C D G Leave the land behind, laddie, you've better days to find C G Am D The companies have the money and they'll soon teach you the skills G Green fields far away, lads, the forties and the brae C G D G Be a mudman or a roustabout, they'll soon teach you to drill D C G But who will tend the sheep when I'm far o'er the deep? C G Am D On the Neptune or the Seaquest when the snow comes to the hill G La la la la la lala, la la la la laa C G D G La la la la la lala, laa la la la la la laaa G Leave the fishing trade, lads, there's money to be made C G Am D The hand-line and the Shetland yawl are from a bygone day G Come to Aberdeen, lads, sights you've never seen C G D G Be a welder on the pipeline or a fitter at Nigg Bay D C G But when the job is o'er and your boat rots on the shore C G Am D How will you feed your family when the companies go away? G La la la la la lala, la la la la laa C G D G La la la la la lala, laa la la la la la laaa G C G Am D G C G D G D C G C G Am D G C G D G G There's harbours to be built, lads, rigs to tow and tilt C G Am D To rest upon the ocean bed, like pylons in the sea G Pipelines to be laid and a hundred different trades C G D G That'll pay a decent living wage to the likes of you and me D C G I know you're men of worth, you're the best that's in the north C G Am D Not men of greed, but men who need the work that's come your way G From Flotta to Kishorn a new industry is born C G D G Now Peterhead and Cromarty will never be the same D C G I know you're men of worth, you're the best that's in the north C G Am D Not men of greed, but men who need the work that comes your way G La la la la la lala, la la la la laa C G D G La la la la la lala, laa la la la la la laaa G C G Am D G C G D G D C G C G Am D G C G D G G C G Am D G C G D G D C G C G Am D G C G D G ================================================================== Track 4 - Fare Thee Well My Own True Love CAPO: 2nd Fret F Bb F Bb C N.C. C F G C Fare thee well__, my own true love F G Am F Farewell for awhile G C F G Am I'm going away__, but I'll return F G C F If I go ten thousand miles G C F G C F Ten thousand miles, my own true love G Am F Ten thousand miles or more__ G C F G Am And the rocks may melt__ and the seas may burn F G C F If I no more return G C F G C F Can't you see__ yon lonesome dove G Am F Sitting on yon ivy tree? G C F G Am She's weeping for__ her own true love F G C F As I will weep for mine G C F G C F Oh, come back__, my own true love G Am F Stay awhile with me G C F G Am For if I had a friend all on this earth F G C F Then you'd be that friend to me, my dear G C F G C F Oh, come back__, my own true love G Am F Stay awhile with me G C F G Am For if I had a friend all on this earth F G C Then you'd be that friend to me, my dear F G C You'd be that friend to me F G C Oh, you'd be that friend to me, my dear F G C You'd be that friend to me C F G C F G Am F G C F G Am F G C ================================================================== Track 5 - She Moves Through the Fair CAPO: 2nd Fret N.C. I once had a sweetheart, I loved her right well N.C. I loved her far better than my tongue can tell N.C. Her parents did slight me for the want of guile C F C Adieu to all pleasure since I lost my dear F C She went away from me and moved through the fair F C Where hand-clapping dealers' loud shouts rent the air F C The sunlight around her did sparkle and play F C F C Saying, "It will not be long, love, 'til our wedding day" F C When dew falls on meadows and moths fill the night F C When glow from the greesach on half-froze, half-light F C I'll slip from my casement and I'll run away F C F C Then it will not be long, love, 'til our wedding day F C I dreamed last night that my love came in F C She came in so easily, her feet made no din F C She came stepping up to me and this she did say F C F C "It will not be long, love, 'til our wedding day" ================================================================== Track 6 - Both Sides The Tweed ## NOTE: There are numerous Walk-Ups/Walk-Downs. ## ## They have been omitted for the ## ## sake of novices and simplicity. ## Am C F Dm7 C Am G Em Am C F Dm7 C G D Am C F Dm7 What's the spring breathing jasmine and rose? C Am G Em What's the summer with all its gay trains? Am C F Dm7 Or the splendour of autumn to those C G Am Who've bartered their freedoms for gain? F C Let the love of our land's sacred right Am G Em To the love of our people succeed Am F Dm7 Let friendship and honour unite C G Am And flourish on both sides the Tweed Am C F Dm7 C G D Am C F Dm7 No sweetness the senses can achieve C Am G Em Which corruption and bribery bind Am C F Dm7 No brightness that gloom can e'er gleam C G Am For honour's the sum of the mind F C Let the love of our land's sacred right Am G Em To the love of our people succeed Am F Dm7 Let friendship and honour unite C G Am And flourish on both sides the Tweed Am C F Dm7 C Am G Em Am C F Dm7 C G Am F C Am G Em Am C F Dm7 C G D Am C F Dm7 Let virtue distinguish the brave C Am G Em Place riches in lowest degree Am C F Dm7 Think them poorest who can be a slave C G Am Them richest who dare to be free F C Let the love of our land's sacred right Am G Em To the love of our people succeed Am F Dm7 Let friendship and honour unite C G Am And flourish on both sides the Tweed F Dm7 Let friendship and honour unite C G Am And flourish on both sides the Tweed ================================================================== Track 7 - Hard Times CAPO: 3rd Fret C F Am F C G C C F Am F C G C F Am Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears F C G C F C For we all sup sorrow with the poor F Am There's a song that will linger forever in our ears F C G C F C Oh, hard times come again no more B7 C There's a song, a sigh of the weary F C D7 G Hard times, hard times, come again no more C F Am Many days you have lingered around my cabin door F C G C F C Oh, hard times come again no more C F Am F C G C C F Am F C G C C B7 C F C G C F Am F C G C C F Am F C G C F Am While we seek mirth and beauty, and music bright and gay F C G C F C There are frail forms fainting at the door F Am Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks will say F C G C F C "Oh, hard times come again no more" B7 C There's a song, a sigh of the weary F C D7 G Hard times, hard times, come again no more C F Am Many days you have lingered around my cabin door F C G C F Oh, hard times come again no more C G C Oh, hard times come again no more ================================================================== Track 8 - I Live Not Where I Love F C Dm7 G7 C F C F G7 C F C G7 C F C Oh, come all ye maids who live at a distance F G7 Many's a mile from off your sway C F C Come and assist me this very moment G7 C For to pass away some time F Dm7 G Singing sweetly and completely C F G Songs of pleasure and of love C F C For me heart is with him altogether G7 C Though I live not where I love F C When I sleep, I dream about you F G7 When I wake, I take no rest C F C Every moment thinking on you G7 C My heart o'er fixed in your breast F Dm7 G But although far distance maybe of assistance C F G If from my mind your love remove C F C For me heart is with him altogether G7 C Though I live not where I love F C Dm7 G7 C F C All the world shall be of no religion F G7 All living things shall cease to die C F C If ever I should prove false to my jewel G7 C Or any way his love deny F Dm7 G Oh, the world shall change and be most strange C F G If from my mind your love remove C F C For me heart is with him altogether G7 C Though I live not where I love F C So farewell lads and farewell lassies F G7 Now I think I've made my choice C F C I will away to yonder mountain G7 C Where I think I hear his voice F Dm7 G And if he hollows I will follow C F G Around the world though it's so wide C F C For young Thomas, he did promise G7 C I should be his lawful bride F C Dm7 G7 C F C Oh, come all ye maids who live at a distance F G7 Many's a mile from off your sway C F C Come and assist me this very moment G7 C For to pass away some time F Dm7 G Singing sweetly and completely C F G Songs of pleasure and of love C F C For me heart is with him altogether G7 C Though I live not where I love F C Dm7 G7 C ================================================================== Track 9 - Isle Of St. Helena G C G C G C G D G C D G C Now Boney's away from his warring and fighting G C D G C He has gone to a place where nought can delight him G D Em C G D He may sit now and tell__ of the sights he has seen of G D Em C D G C G C G While forlorn he does mourn on the Isle of St. Helena G C D G C No more in St. Claude will he appear in great splendour G C D G C Nor step forth from the crowd like the great Alexander G D Em C G D He may look to the east__, while he thinks on Lucana G D Em C D G C G C G With his heart full of woe__ on the Isle of St. Helena G C D G C The wild, rushing waves 'round our shores, they're a-washing G C D G C And the white billows heave on our rocks, they're a-lashing G D Em C G D He may look o'er the main__ to the great Mount Diana G D Em C D G C G C G With his eyes on the waves__ that surround St. Helena G C D G C G C D G C G D Em C G D G D Em C D G C G C D G C Louise as she weeps, from her husband is parted G C D G C And she dreams while she sleeps and awakes broken-hearted G D Em C G D There is none to console her, though there's many would be with her G D Em C D G C G C G While alone she does mourn when she thinks of St. Helena G C D G C So all you that have wealth, beware of ambition G C D G C For there's some twist of fate could soon change your condition G D Em C G D Be steadfast in time__, what's to come, change you cannot G D Em C D G C G C G For maybe your race will end__ on the Isle of St. Helena G C D G C G C D G C G D Em C G D G D Em C D G C G C G C G ================================================================== Track 10 - My Youngest Son Came Home Today CAPO: 5th Fret Am G Fmaj7 G Am G Fmaj7 G Am C G My youngest son came home today Am C G His friends marched with him all the way Am G Am The pipes and drums beat out the time C G Am As in his box of polished pine F G F E Like dead meat on a butcher's tray Am G Am My youngest son came home today Am G Fmaj7 G Am G Fmaj7 G Am C G My youngest son was a fine young man Am C G With a wife, a daughter and two sons Am G Am A man he would have lived and died C G Am 'Til by a bullet sanctified F G F E Now he's a saint or so they say Am G Am They brought their saint home today Am G Fmaj7 G Am G Fmaj7 G Am C G Above the narrow Belfast streets Am C G An Irish sky looks down and weeps Am G Am On children's blood in gutters spilled C G Am In dreams of freedom unfulfilled F G F E As part of freedom's price to pay Am G Am My youngest son came home today Am G Fmaj7 G Am G Fmaj7 G Am C G Am C G Am G Am C G Am F G F E Am G Am Am G Fmaj7 G Am G Fmaj7 G Am C G My youngest son came home today Am C G His friends marched with him all the way Am G Am The pipes and drums beat out the time C G Am As in his box of polished pine F G F E Like dead meat on a butcher's tray Am G Am G Fmaj7 G My youngest son came home today Am G Am And this time he's home - to stay ==================================================================