Maid Of Culmore chords by Cara Dillon

Chords with lyrics

Maid of Culmore - traditional Irish, I believe, has been recorded by Cara Dillon, Celtic Thunder
and the Bothy Band, among others

I play this on capo 3 with a basic strumming pattern


INTRO: E minorEm  D MajorD   G+G  D MajorD   C majorC


    E minorEm      D MajorD     G+G  D MajorD    C majorC
Leaving sweet lovely Derry for fair London town
     E minorEm     D MajorD       E minorEm     B minorBm
There is no finer harbour all around can be found
     E minorEm        D MajorD     E minorEm     B minorBm
Where the youngsters each evening go down to the shore
    E minorEm        D MajorD       G+G  D MajorD   C majorC
And the sweet bells are ringing for the maid of Culmore

   E minorEm      D MajorD      G+G  D MajorD  C majorC
The first time I saw her, she passed me by
     E minorEm     D MajorD      E minorEm     B minorBm
And the next time I saw her, she bid me goodbye
    E minorEm      D MajorD     E minorEm        B minorBm
And the last time I saw her, it grieved my heart sore
     E minorEm        D MajorD   G+G   D MajorD    C majorC
For she sailed down Lough Foyle, away from Culmore


  E minorEm    D MajorD     G+G   D MajorD    C majorC
If I had the power the storms for to rise
    E minorEm      D MajorD        E minorEm     B minorBm
I would make the wind blow out and I'd darken the skies
   E minorEm      D MajorD         E minorEm      B minorBm
I'd make the wind blow high and the salt seas to roar
     E minorEm     D MajorD       G+G   D MajorD    C majorC
'Til the day that my darling sailed away from Culmore


Instrumental, as verse

    E minorEm      D MajorD      G+G    D MajorD  C majorC
To the far parts of America, my love I'll go seek
     E minorEm      D MajorD     E minorEm      B minorBm
For it's there I know no one and no one knows me
  E minorEm      D MajorD        E minorEm     B minorBm
But if I don't find her, I'll return home no more
    E minorEm      D MajorD       G+G  D MajorD    C majorC
Like a pilgrim I'll wander for the maid of Culmore
    E minorEm      D MajorD       G+G  D MajorD    C majorC