The Foggy Dew chords by The Chieftains

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

starts freely, with a Drone on BB

Verse 1:
B5B5
As down the glen one Easter morn

To a city fair rode I

There armed lines of marching men

In squadrons passed me by

Chorus:
   D MajorD
No pipe did hum
  E minorEm   D MajorD    B minorBm
No battle drum did sound its loud tattoo
                 A augmentedA
But the Angelus Bells o'er the Liffey swells
   B minorBm
Rang out in the foggy dew

Instrumental in time:

B minorBm - B minorBm

Verse:
    B minorBm       E minorEm  F# minorF#m
Right proudly high in Dublin town
   B minorBm     G+G    B minorBm E minorEm B minorBm
Hung they out a flag of war
    B minorBm    G+G       E minorEm F# minorF#m D MajorD
'Twas better to die 'neath that Irish sky
   B minorBm     E minorEm F# minorF#m B minorBm
Than at Sulva or Sud-El-Bar

Chorus:
   D MajorD         G+G A augmentedA  D MajorD
And from the plains of Royal Meath
    D MajorD    G+G    B minorBm A/BA/B B minorBm
Strong men came hurrying through
     B minorBm    G+G        E minorEm F# minorF#m  B minorBm
While Brittania's Huns with their long range guns
    B minorBm       E minorEm F# minorF#m B minorBm
Sailed in through the foggy dew

Instrumental:
B minorBm   B minorBm   E minorEm    F# minorF#m
D MajorD    G+G   B minorBm A/BA/B B minorBm

Verse:
    B minorBm       E minorEm  F# minorF#m
Their bravest fell and the requiem bell
   B minorBm     G+G    B minorBm E minorEm B minorBm
Rang mournfully and clear
   B minorBm    B minorBm    E minorEm  F# minorF#m
For those who died that Eastertide in the
 B minorBm    G+G F# minorF#m B minorBm
Springing of the year

Chorus:
   D MajorD             A augmentedA  D MajorD
While the world did gaze with deep amaze
     B minorBm   G+G    B minorBm A/BA/B B minorBm
At those fearless men but few
   B minorBm         A augmentedA     F# minorF#m
Who bore the fight that freedom's light
    B minorBm        G+G F# minorF#m B minorBm
Might shine through the foggy dew

Instrumental: x2
B minorBm   B minorBm   E minorEm    F# minorF#m
D MajorD    G+G   B minorBm A/BA/B B minorBm
ch inst:
D MajorD    D MajorD   A augmentedA    D MajorD
B minorBm   E minorEm   B minorBm A/BA/B B minorBm
Bm   B minorBm   E minorEm    F# minorF#m
B minorBm   E minorEm F# minorF#m B minorBm (let ring)

freely:
Verse:
  B minorBm drone        E minorEm  F# minorF#m
And back through the glen, I rode again
    B minorBm     E minorEm    B minorBm
And my heart with grief was sore
    E minorEm        D MajorD
For Versed then with valiant men
    B minorBm
Whom I never shall see n'more

Chorus:
   D MajorD        E minorEm   D MajorD
But to and fro in my dreams I go
    B minorBm     G+G    B minorBm
And I kneel and pray for you

For slavery fled, O glorious dead

When you fell in the foggy dew