Valentine Ohara chords by Daoiri Farrell

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

INRTO:
  C       F      C         F    G      C
  F       C      G         C    F      C

VERSE 1:
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I am a gallant highway man, called Valentine O'Hara
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And I come from poor but decent folk nigh to the Hill of Tara
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By the getting of a maid with child, to England I went over
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I left my parents and I became a wild and daring rover

VERSE 2:
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Well, it's straight to England I did go, where I became a soldier
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Resolved to fight Britannia's foes; no Hector great was bolder
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I fought all in some foreign shores, where the cannons loud did rattle
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Believe me boys, I do not boast how I behaved in battle

VERSE 3:
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Well it's many's the battle I fought in, in Holland and French Flanders
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For I always fought with a courage keen, led on by great commanders
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Until a cruel Ensign found me out, and I was flogged and carted
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Oh Cruel Usage they gave me, and so I soon departed


INSTRUMENTAL - pipes - verse chods 1X:


VERSE 4:
          C                        F     C     F       G           C
Well it's straight back to England I did go as fast as winds would drive me
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Resolved that of my liberty, no man could e'er deny me
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For I slept out in the fields at night, by all my friends forsaken
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I dared not walk the road by day, for fear I might be taken

VERSE 5:
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But I being of a courage keen and likewise able-bodied
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I robbed Lord Nelson on the King's Highway with my pistols heavy loaded
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I placed my pistols to his breast which caused his heart to quiver
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Five-hundred pounds in ready gold to me he did deliver

VERSE 6:
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Well, with part of my new store of gold I bought a famous gelding
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That could jump o'er a five-bar gate, and I bought it from Ned Fielding
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Lord Arkinstone all in his coach I robbed near Covent Garden
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And two hours later that same night I robbed the Earl of Warren

VERSE 7:
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In Turnham Green I next did rob the revenue collector
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And what I took from him I gave to a widow to protect her
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I always robbed the rich and great, for to rob the poor I scorned it
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And now in iron chains I'm bound and dooomed I now lie burning

VERSE 8:
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And it's straight to Newgate I do go, all by the law convicted
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To hang all on the Tyburn tree, of which I'm much affrighted
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Farewell my friends and neighbors all, likewise my native Tara
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Kind providence may test the soul of Valentine O'Hara