The Creggan White Hare chords by Daoiri Farrell

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 4th

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: F#F#

Difficulty: Intermediate

Played with capo 4 like "The Best Kept Secret" version on Youtube

Intro:
D MajorD   D/C#   G+G   A augmentedA (4X)

Verse 1:
    D MajorD      D/C#      B minorBm       G+G
In the lowlands of Creggan, there lives a white hare,
  D MajorD      D/C#     B minorBm        A augmentedA
As swift as the swallow that flies through the air.
    B minorBm                 D MajorD
You may tramp the world over but none to compare
    G+G      D MajorD       B minorBm      G+G
To the pride of old Creggan, that bonnie white hare.

Verse 2:
  D MajorD      D/C#    B minorBm     G+G
One clear autumn morning, as you will suppose,
  D MajorD       D/C#     B minorBm       A augmentedA
Ohh The red golden sun o’er the green mountain rose.
    B minorBm              D MajorD
Barney Conway came down and he did declare,
   G+G        D MajorD     B minorBm      G+G
“This day I’ll put an end to the bonnie white hare.”

Verse 3:
   D MajorD          D/C#     B minorBm        G+G
So he searched through the lowlands and down through the glens,
   D MajorD       D/C#       B minorBm       A augmentedA
All among the wild ditches where the white hare had ends,
    B minorBm                  D MajorD
Till at last coming down over the heather so fair,
   G+G        D MajorD      B minorBm       G+G
From behind the wild thistle out jumps the white hare.

Verse 4:
    D MajorD        D/C#     B minorBm       G+G
“Bang! bang!” went his guns and his dogs he slipped too.
  D MajorD      D/C#     B minorBm       A augmentedA
As swift as the wind over the green mountain flew.
    B minorBm                   D MajorD
But his dog soon came back, and it made Barney sigh,
    G+G       D MajorD       B minorBm     G+G
For he knew that the white hare had bid him goodbye.

D MajorD   D/C#   G+G   A augmentedA (2X)

Verse 5:
     D MajorD     D/C#      B minorBm      G+G
And we’re some jolly sportsmen down here from Pomeroy
   D MajorD       D/C#    B minorBm      A augmentedA
From Cookstown, Dungannon, and likewise the Moy.
     B minorBm                    D MajorD
With our pedigree greyhounds we’ve travelled from far
     G+G      D MajorD       B minorBm     G+G
And we’ve come down to Creggan in our fine motor car.

Verse 6:
   D MajorD    D/C#      B minorBm      G+G
Well into the lowlands these huntsmen did go
  D MajorD       D/C#       B minorBm      A augmentedA
In search of the white hare they'd look high and low,
    B minorBm                  D MajorD
Till at last Barney Conway from a bog bank so rare
    G+G     D MajorD        B minorBm       G+G
Shouted out to the huntsmen, “There lies the white hare.”

Verse 7:
    D MajorD        D/C#      B minorBm      G+G
So they called up their greyhounds from off the green lee
  D MajorD       D/C#     B minorBm        A augmentedA
And Barney and the huntsmen all jumped high with glee,
    B minorBm                 D MajorD
it was there on the bog bank all gathered around,
   G+G       D MajorD      B minorBm      G+G
Seven dogs and nine men did that poor hare surround.

Verse 8:
   D MajorD     D/C#      B minorBm      G+G
Oh no wonder the white hare did tremble with fear
   D MajorD       D/C#         B minorBm      A augmentedA
As she stood on her hind legs, she would raise her big ears,
    B minorBm                   D MajorD
As she stood on her hind legs with one gallant spring,
      G+G      D MajorD     B minorBm        G+G
She jumped over the greyhounds and broke through the ring.

Verse 9:
   D MajorD         D/C#    B minorBm    G+G
Well that chase it went on, it was beautiful view
  D MajorD      D/C#     B minorBm       A augmentedA
As swift as the wind o’er the green mountain flew.
  B minorBm                     D MajorD
But those pedigree greyhounds, they didn’t run far.
     G+G       D MajorD       B minorBm     G+G
They come back and went home in their fine motor car.

Verse 10:
   D MajorD     D/C#        B minorBm      G+G
Then there came another man and you all know him well;
  D MajorD       D/C#      B minorBm      A augmentedA
His name was Mick Kelly with the Bonnie Black Belle.
   B minorBm                     D MajorD
Oh in search of the white hare, today “I’ll have fun.
     G+G    D MajorD      B minorBm       G+G
I'll bet fifty to one my Black Belle will her turn.”

Verse 11:
   D MajorD       D/C#     B minorBm      G+G
Five turns the hare got then from Bonnie Black Belle,
    D MajorD       D/C#     B minorBm      A augmentedA
And the sixth one was given around John Hardy’s well.
    B minorBm                   D MajorD
It was there we lost sight of the hare and the dog,
     G+G      D MajorD     B minorBm       G+G
And then ten minutes later came o’er the black bog.

Verse 12:
      D MajorD       D/C#    B minorBm      G+G
Well, that chase it went on. It was great for to see.
  D MajorD         D/C#      B minorBm        A augmentedA
The white hare and the black dog both roamed light and free,
     B minorBm                     D MajorD
Till she travelled to Esker where she knew the lands well,
    G+G      D MajorD       B minorBm      G+G
And to Bonnie Black Belle at there soon bid farewell.

D MajorD   D/C#   G+G   A augmentedA (2X)

Verse 13:
    D MajorD     D/C#     B minorBm     G+G
Oh and now to conclude and to finish this rhyme
 D MajorD      D/C#      B minorBm        A augmentedA
I hope you’ll forgive me for singing all this while.
      B minorBm               D MajorD
If there’s any amongst you in Carrick more fair,
    G+G      D MajorD      B minorBm      G+G
Please drink up a health to that bonnie white hare.

D MajorD   D/C#   G+G   A augmentedA (3X)