My Last Farewell chords by Barleycorn

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

🎸 Intro:
C majorC G+G A minorAm D MajorD G+G

🎸 Verse:
    G+G              A minorAm       C majorC
Dearest Mother I am writing just to say I won’t be home
    D MajorD                C majorC   D MajorD  G+G D MajorD
There’s something that I have to do and I must do alone
     G+G                 A minorAm       C majorC
They have took me and they’ve put me in this lonely prison cell
  D MajorD                  C majorC   D MajorD    G+G
To night my thoughts are with you as I say my last Farewell

🎸 Chorus:
  D MajorD               G+G
So say goodbye to Margaret, Mary Bridget and Michál
 C majorC        G+G           E minorEm    D MajorD
I have no words to tell you how much I’ll miss you all
  A minorAm        D MajorD      G+G
And though I may not show it you know I’ve loved you well
  C majorC      G+G       A minorAm   D MajorD    G+G
So in my final letter I will bid my last farewell

🎸 Verse:
    G+G                  A minorAm        C majorC
Dearest brother won’t you take good care of all the folks for me
  D MajorD            C majorC    D MajorD    G+G D MajorD
Go home to Rathfarnam on the day they set you free
   G+G               A minorAm         C majorC
I was happy when you stood by me in all that we’ve been through
  D MajorD             C majorC    D MajorD    G+G
No one has ever had so true a brother such as you

🎸 Chorus:
  D MajorD               G+G
So say goodbye to Margaret, Mary Bridget and Michál
 C majorC        G+G           E minorEm    D MajorD
I have no words to tell you how much I’ll miss you all
  A minorAm        D MajorD      G+G
And though I may not show it you know I’ve loved you well
  C majorC      G+G       A minorAm   D MajorD    G+G
So in my final letter I will bid my last farewell

🎸 Verse:
    G+G              A minorAm       C majorC
Dearest mother it’s so very sad that now we have to part
  D MajorD              C majorC    D MajorD     G+G  D MajorD
To understand the reasons would trouble your poor heart
    G+G              A minorAm     C majorC
I have told you since I was a boy it was my destiny
  D MajorD                C majorC    D MajorD    G+G
To die a true brave soldier so that one day you’d be free

🎸 Chorus:
  D MajorD               G+G
So say goodbye to Margaret, Mary Bridget and Michál
 C majorC        G+G           E minorEm    D MajorD
I have no words to tell you how much I’ll miss you all
  A minorAm        D MajorD      G+G
And though I may not show it you know I’ve loved you well
  C majorC      G+G       C majorC  A minorAm D7D7  D MajorD  G+G
So in my final letter I will bid my last farewell