Ireland chords by Garth Brooks

CAPO 1
Intro is cold open with one strum on G

Intro:

G


Verse 1:
(Just one strum per cord)

                         G
They say mother earth is breathing
                               G
With each wave that finds the shore
                      G
Her soul rises in the evening
                      G
For to open twilights door
          Em              G
Her eyes are the stars in heaven
                         C
Watching o'er us all the while
                       G          D
And her heart it is in Ireland
                        G
Deep within the Emerald Isle

Verse 2:
(Begin Struming)

                     G
We are forty against hundreds
                         G
In someone else's bloody war
                     G
We know not why were fighting
                    G
Or what we're dying for
           Em             G
They will storm us in the morning
                           C
When the sunlight turns to sky
                          G             D
Death is waiting for it's dance now
                         G
Fate has sentenced us to die


Chorus:

Em      C           G
Ireland I am coming home
      C                 G
I can see your rolling fields of green
    Em              D
And fences made of stone
      Em      G             C       G
I am reaching out won't you take my hand
           Em   C    G
I'm coming home I-re-land


Verse 3:

                      G
Oh the captain he lay bleeding
                       G
I can hear him calling me
                                 G
These men are yours now for the leading
                       G
Show them to their destiny
      Em           G
As I look up all around me
                           C
I see the ragged tired and torn
                    G          D
I tell them to make ready
                                 G
'Cause we're not waiting for the morn


Chorus:

Em      C           G
Ireland I am coming home
      C                 G
I can see your rolling fields of green
    Em              D
And fences made of stone
      Em      G             C       G
I am reaching out won't you take my hand
           Em   C    G
I'm coming home I-re-land


Verse 4:
(palm mute)

                        G
Now the fog is deep and heavy
                         G
As we forge the dark and fear
                         G
We can hear their horses breathing
                      G
As in silence we draw near
          Em             G
There are no words to be spoken
                   C
Just a look to say good-bye
                             G        D
I draw a breath and night is broken
                       G
As I scream our battle cry


Chorus:

Em      C           G
Ireland I am coming home
      C                 G
I can see your rolling fields of green
    Em              D
And fences made of stone
      Em      G             C       G
I am reaching out won't you take my hand
           Em   C    G
I'm coming home I-re-land


Outro:

G, G, G
                      G       (FADE)