Chords with lyrics
Spancil Hill chords
Irish Traditional
Capo I
A minorAm G+G A minorAm
A minorAm G+G A minorAm
Last night as I lay dreaming, of pleasant days gone by,
C majorC G+G
Me mind being bent on rambling, to Ireland I did fly,
A minorAm C majorC G+G
I stepped aboard a vision, and followed with a will,
A minorAm G+G A minorAm
And I shortly came to anchor, at the cross on Spancil Hill.
A minorAm G+G A minorAm
It being the 23rd of June, the day before the fair,
C majorC G+G
When Irelands' sons and daughters, in crowds assembled there,
A minorAm
The young and the old, the brave and the bold,
C majorC G+G A minorAm G+G A minorAm
Came their joy to fulfill, there were jovial conversations at the fair at Spancil
Hill.
A minorAm G+G A minorAm
I went to see my neighbors, to hear what they might say,
C majorC G+G
The old ones were all dead and gone, the young ones turning gray,
A minorAm C majorC G+G
I met with the tailor Quigley he's as bald as ever still,
A minorAm G+G A minorAm
Sure he used to make me britches when I lived in Spancil Hill.
A minorAm G+G A minorAm
I paid a flying visit to my first and only love,
C majorC G+G
She's as white as any lily and as gentle as a dove,
A minorAm C majorC G+G
She threw her arms around me, saying Johnny I love you still,
A minorAm G+G A minorAm
Oh, she's Nell the farmers daughter and the flower of Spancil Hill.
A minorAm G+G A minorAm
I dream't I held and kissed her, as in the days of yore,
C majorC G+G
She said Johnny you're only joking like many's the times before,
A minorAm C majorC G+G
The cock he crew the morning, he crew both loud and shrill,
A minorAm G+G A minorAm
And I awoke in California, many miles from Spancil Hill.
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