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)