Skibbereen chords by The Dubliners

Chords with lyrics

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

Intro:
E minorEm

Verse:
  E minorEm       E minorEm       C majorC        E minorEm
Oh father dear, I often hear you speak of Erin's isle
  C majorC         G+G         G+G     C majorC    E minorEm
Her lofty scenes, her valleys green, her mountains rude and wild
   C majorC      G+G        G+G  C majorC      E minorEm
They say it is a lovely land wherein a prince might dwell
   D MajorD      G+G         E minorEm      E minorEm
Then why did you abandon it, oh the reason to me tell

  E minorEm       E minorEm        C majorC     E minorEm
Oh son, I loved my native land with energy and pride
    C majorC        G+G          G+G     C majorC   E minorEm
Till a blight came over all my crops, and my sheep and cattle died
  C majorC        G+G         G+G     C majorC   E minorEm
The rents and taxes were to pay, and I could not them redeem
  D MajorD        G+G    E minorEm       E minorEm
And that's the cruel reason I left old Skibbereen

   E minorEm     E minorEm     C majorC       E minorEm
'Tis well I do remember the bleak November day
     C majorC        G+G        G+G    C majorC  E minorEm
When the bailiff and the landlord came to drive us all away
   C majorC        G+G        G+G   C majorC    E minorEm
They set the roof on fire with their cursed English spleen
  D MajorD       G+G    E minorEm       E minorEm
And that's another reason I left old Skibbereen

    E minorEm       E minorEm         C majorC      E minorEm
Oh your mother too, God rest her soul, lay on the snowy ground
  C majorC       G+G           G+G  C majorC    E minorEm
She fainted in her anguishing seeing the desolation 'round
  C majorC        G+G         G+G    C majorC    E minorEm
She never rose, but passed away, from life to immortal dreams
  D MajorD       G+G    E minorEm       E minorEm
And that's another reason I left old Skibbereen

  E minorEm      E minorEm         C majorC        E minorEm
Oh you were only two years old, and feeble was your frame
 C majorC          G+G            G+G     C majorC    E minorEm
I could not leave you with my friends, for you bore your father's name
 C majorC         G+G        G+G    C majorC    E minorEm
I wrapped you in my cóta mór in the dead of night unseen
   D MajorD          G+G        E minorEm       E minorEm
And I heaved a sigh, and I said goodbye to dear old Skibbereen

  E minorEm        E minorEm          C majorC         E minorEm
Oh father dear, the day will come when on vengeance we will call
  C majorC       G+G          G+G    C majorC   E minorEm
And Irish men both stout and tall will rally unto the call
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I'll be the man to lead the band beneath the flag of green
  D MajorD          G+G        E minorEm        E minorEm
And loud and high, we'll raise the cry, Revenge for Skibbereen!