Ireland chords by Ghost Mice

Chords with lyrics

Time for the final song! It also happens to be one of the most enjoyable ones to play because of how
much you have to switch chords. I'd imagine that this is a lot easier to do on my accordion than it must
be using an actual guitar, but you folks are good. You'll figure it out.

CHORDS USED:
FF
C majorC
G+G
A minorAm

        C majorC               G+G    A minorAm
It seemed like everything we heard and hoped might be true
     C majorC                   A minorAm FF
We got a ride right away and she took us to the dunes

  A minorAm    G+G      C majorC
And we fell asleep to the sounds of a carnival
    A minorAm   G+G        C majorC
From a village further down the beach
  A minorAm        G+G      C majorC      A minorAm
We woke up the next morning on a bed of tiny flowers,
      C majorC        G+G        C majorC
Packed the tent and went to get somethin' to eat

      A minorAm                C majorC
We bought a cheap jar of peanut butter and a loaf of fresh white bread,
    A minorAm                  FF          G+G
We made sandwiches on the beach; life doesn't get any better than this

  C majorC                G+G       A minorAm
We walked in for free to the first castle that we found
    C majorC            G+G      A minorAm FF
It was empty, it was late, it became our campground
    A minorAm    G+G      C majorC      FF
And we spotted a tent and we met another camper
    A minorAm   G+G    C majorC
And he told us his sad story--
   A minorAm     G+G      C majorC      FF       A minorAm   G+G   C majorC
Well he had been dumped by a girl that he loved, but he told us not to worry


    A minorAm                   C majorC
You can camp anywhere, no one's gonna care; why would they?
     A minorAm
"It's not like this at home," we told him, "you know"
       FF       G+G
He said your home's so far away


C majorC                 G+G    A minorAm
We went west all the way 'til the land ran out
     C majorC            G+G        A minorAm FF
We slept at an empty house in the middle of a tiny town
     A minorAm    G+G       C majorC        FF    A minorAm   G+G        C majorC
We met a man at a crossroads who said it was his dream to someday come to Bloomington
A minorAm        G+G       C majorC      FF       A minorAm     G+G     C majorC
We thought it was funny because for you and me, it was our dream to be here in Ireland

A minorAm
He was a big fan of John Melloncamp;
  C majorC
we told him everything we knew about him
  A minorAm
We invited him to come and stay at our house;
    FF             G+G
when we got to our stop he didn't want us to get out
       C majorC                  FF A minorAm


We stayed the night at the house of a guy from Albany
    C majorC                    A minorAm FF
He was glad to meet Americans; he made us spaghetti


  A minorAm    G+G    C majorC       FF       A minorAm     G+G      C majorC
And we met a man who said he was a doctor and he took us on some of his house calls
  A minorAm      G+G         C majorC     FF
He taught us the best way to get a donkey to come to you
     A minorAm      C majorC      FF
is not to pay them any attention at all


   A minorAm                       C majorC
And I crawled to the edge and peeked over my head and looked down to the sea
    A minorAm                    FF         G+G
It was two thousand feet to the water below; it looked so blue, it looked so deep


     C majorC      FF        A minorAm     C majorC
And don't ever let 'em tell you that it rains in Ireland
C majorC           FF        G+G         C majorC
Well if they tell you that you can be sure they've never been
      C majorC       FF        A minorAm        C majorC
'Cause the sun is always shinin' and the hills are always green
    C majorC         FF      G+G      C majorC
And the people are always smilin' and offerin' you drinks


G+G - A minorAm - G+G

   C majorC                     A minorAm
We'd set up our tent on the cliffs right by the sea
    C majorC                   A minorAm FF
Almost every night and the waves rocked us to sleep


 A minorAm      G+G       C majorC      FF
A augmentedA postman from Wales and his friend from England
     A minorAm      G+G      C majorC
Bought us fries at the westernmost pub
A minorAm     G+G      C majorC      FF
We sat with them and two others we'd met
      A minorAm     G+G      C majorC
And we all watched the postman get drunk


    A minorAm                 C majorC
And at first the Burren might seem like a waste land of broken stones
A minorAm                     FF         G+G
Look in the cracks and you'll see there's a secret there that grows
  C majorC         G+G        A minorAm
And Galway City really feels a lot like home
    C majorC      G+G        A minorAm FF
We went through Connemara and up to Sligo


  A minorAm      G+G         C majorC  FF
And at the Slieve League we couldn't see anything;
   A minorAm    G+G       C majorC
We decided that we should turn back
  A minorAm     G+G       C majorC         FF
The mist was so thick that we couldn't find our feet
    A minorAm        G+G     C majorC
And the trail was called Deadman's Pass


A minorAm                         C majorC
On one side it was three thousand feet down to the ocean
A minorAm
The other was two thousand feet to the ground
  FF          G+G
And anyway our time was running out


  C majorC             G+G      A minorAm
And we crossed the country in less than a day
  C majorC          G+G         A minorAm  FF
Our last ride to Dublin asked us the same things


   A minorAm     G+G    C majorC    FF
They asked if we had any kin from Ireland;
     A minorAm       G+G    C majorC
They were surprised when we said no
    A minorAm      G+G        C majorC       FF
When I said I didn't drink and hadn't tried Guinness yet
       A minorAm      G+G      C majorC
They were the first ones to say, "way to go"


  A minorAm              C majorC
And as our ferry was leaving the Emerald Isle behind
    A minorAm            FF        G+G
We were already making our plans to come back sometime


     C majorC       FF        A minorAm     C majorC
And don't ever let 'em tell you that it rains in Ireland
   C majorC        FF        G+G         C majorC
Well if they tell you that you can be sure they've never been
      C majorC       FF        A minorAm        C majorC
'Cause the sun is always shinin' and the hills are always green
  C majorC         FF      G+G      C majorC
And people are always smilin' and offerin' you drinks