The Fields Of Athenry chords by The High Kings

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 5th

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

Difficulty: Novice

Verse:
   C majorC
By a lonely prison wall
 FF         C majorC  G+G
I heard a young girl calling
 C majorC         FF     G+G   G7G7
"Michael, they have taken you away
    C majorC        FF
For you stole Trevelyn's corn
    C majorC          G+G
So the young might see the morn
   Dm7Dm7       G+G       C majorC  FF C majorC FF
As a prison ship lies waiting in the bay"

Chorus:
C majorC  FF    C majorC       A minorAm
Low lie the fields of Athenry
   C majorC          FF        G+G  G7G7
Where once we watched the small free birds fly
  C majorC        FF
Our love was on the wing
    C majorC          G+G
We had dreams and songs to sing
    Dm7Dm7        G+G       C majorC  FF A minorAm C majorC FF
It's so lonely 'round the fields of Athenry

Verse:
   C majorC
By a lonely prison wall
 FF         C majorC  G+G
I heard a young man calling
 C majorC        FF         G+G   G7G7
"Nothing matters, Mary, when you're free
      C majorC       FF
Against the famine and the Crown
  C majorC          G+G
I rebelled, they cut me down
  Dm7Dm7        G+G        C majorC  FF C majorC FF
Now you must raise our child with dignity"

Chorus:
C majorC  FF    C majorC       A minorAm
Low lie the fields of Athenry
   C majorC          FF        G+G  G7G7
Where once we watched the small free birds fly
  C majorC        FF
Our love was on the wing
    C majorC          G+G
We had dreams and songs to sing
    Dm7Dm7        G+G       C majorC  FF
It's so lonely 'round the fields of Athenry

Verse:
   C majorC
By a lonely harbour wall
  FF           C majorC  G+G
She watched the last star falling
    C majorC         FF        G+G  G7G7
As the prison ship sailed out against the sky
    C majorC         FF
For she lives to hope and pray
    C majorC       G+G
For her love in Botany Bay
    Dm7Dm7        G+G       C majorC  FF C majorC
It's so lonely 'round the fields of Athenry

Chorus:
C majorC  FF    C majorC       A minorAm
Low lie the fields of Athenry
   C majorC          FF        G+G  G7G7
Where once we watched the small free birds fly
  C majorC        FF
Our love was on the wing
    C majorC          G+G
We had dreams and songs to sing
    Dm7Dm7        G+G       C majorC
It's so lonely 'round the fields of Athenry

Chorus:
  FF    C majorC       A minorAm
Low lie the fields of Athenry
   C majorC          FF        G+G  G7G7
Where once we watched the small free birds fly
  C majorC        FF
Our love was on the wing
    C majorC          G+G
We had dreams and songs to sing
    Dm7Dm7        G+G       C majorC
It's so lonely 'round the fields of Athenry
    Dm7Dm7        G+G       C majorC
It's so lonely 'round the fields of Athenry