Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E) 🎸 Intro: C G Am D G 🎸 Verse: G Am C Dearest Mother I am writing just to say I won’t be home D C D G D There’s something that I have to do and I must do alone G Am C They have took me and they’ve put me in this lonely prison cell D C D G To night my thoughts are with you as I say my last Farewell
🎸 Chorus: D G So say goodbye to Margaret, Mary Bridget and Michál C G Em D I have no words to tell you how much I’ll miss you all Am D G And though I may not show it you know I’ve loved you well C G Am D G So in my final letter I will bid my last farewell 🎸 Verse: G Am C Dearest brother won’t you take good care of all the folks for me D C D G D Go home to Rathfarnam on the day they set you free G Am C I was happy when you stood by me in all that we’ve been through D C D G No one has ever had so true a brother such as you 🎸 Chorus: D G So say goodbye to Margaret, Mary Bridget and Michál C G Em D I have no words to tell you how much I’ll miss you all Am D G And though I may not show it you know I’ve loved you well C G Am D G So in my final letter I will bid my last farewell 🎸 Verse: G Am C Dearest mother it’s so very sad that now we have to part D C D G D To understand the reasons would trouble your poor heart G Am C I have told you since I was a boy it was my destiny D C D G To die a true brave soldier so that one day you’d be free 🎸 Chorus: D G So say goodbye to Margaret, Mary Bridget and Michál C G Em D I have no words to tell you how much I’ll miss you all Am D G And though I may not show it you know I’ve loved you well C G C Am D7 D G So in my final letter I will bid my last farewell