The Boys Of Wexford chords by The Clancy Brothers

🎸 Verse:
     G      C            D
In comes the captain's daughter,
        D          Em
The captain of the Yeos,
   G         C          D
Saying: Brave United Irishmen,
  G          D          G
We'll ne'er again be foes.
   C                  G
A thousand pounds I'll bring
            C         G       Em
If you will fly from home with me,
     G            C         D
And dress myself in man's attire
     G    D        G
And fight for liberty.

🎸 Chorus:
    C                G
We are the boys of Wexford,
     C      G             Em
Who fought with heart and hand
   G                  C       D
To burst in twain the galling chain
    G        D      G
And free our native land.

🎸 Verse:
   G      C            D
I want no gold, my maiden fair,
       D          Em
To fly from home with thee;
   G        C            D
You shining eyes will be my prize -
 G          D          G
More dear than gold to me.
   C                  G
I want no gold to nerve my arm
C         G       Em
To do a true man's part -
   G      C            D
To free my land I'd gladly give
 G          D          G
The red drops of my heart."

🎸 Chorus:
    C                G
We are the boys of Wexford,
     C      G             Em
Who fought with heart and hand
   G                  C       D
To burst in twain the galling chain
    G        D      G
And free our native land.

🎸 Verse:
     G      C            D
And when we left our cabins, boys,
       D          Em
We left with right good will
     G      C            D
To see our friends and neighbours
 G          D          G
That were at Vinegar Hill
     C                  G
A young man from our Irish ranks
 C      G       Em
A cannon he let go;
 G      C            D
He slapt it into Lord Mountjoy -
 G          D          G
A tyrant he laid low! 🎸 Chorus:

🎸 Chorus:
    C                G
We are the boys of Wexford,
     C      G             Em
Who fought with heart and hand
   G                  C       D
To burst in twain the galling chain
    G        D      G
And free our native land.

🎸 Verse:
    G      C            D
We bravely fought and conquered
     D          Em
At Ross and Wexford town;
      G      C            D
Three Bullet Gate for years to come
 G         D       G
Will speak of our renown;
        C                  G
Through Walpole's horse and Walpole's foot
 C        G       Em
On Tubberneering's day,
       G      C            D
Depending on the long, bright pike

 G     D        G
We cut our gory way.

🎸 Chorus:
    C                G
We are the boys of Wexford,
     C      G             Em
Who fought with heart and hand
   G                  C       D
To burst in twain the galling chain
    G        D      G
And free our native land.

🎸 Verse:
      G      C            D
And Oulart's name shall be their shame,
       D          Em
Whose steel we ne'er did fear.
    G      C            D
For every man could do his part
 G          D       G
Like Forth and Shelmalier!
    C                G
And if for want of leaders,
 C        G       Em
We lost at Vinegar Hill,
   G      C            D
We're ready for another fight,
 G          D          G
And love our country still!

🎸 Chorus:
    C                G
We are the boys of Wexford,
     C      G             Em
Who fought with heart and hand
   G                  C       D
To burst in twain the galling chain
    G        D      G
And free our native land.