Spancil Hill chords by Irish Traditional

Spancil Hill chords
Irish Traditional

Capo I

Am G Am

Am         G                Am
Last night as I lay dreaming, of pleasant days gone by,
                  C       G
Me mind being bent on rambling, to Ireland I did fly,
 Am              C        G
I stepped aboard a vision, and followed with a will,
   Am       G                Am
And I shortly came to anchor, at the cross on Spancil Hill.

  Am        G            Am
It being the 23rd of June, the day before the fair,
                   C        G
When Irelands' sons and daughters, in crowds assembled there,
  Am
The young and the old, the brave and the bold,
C          G        Am      G               Am
Came their joy to fulfill, there were jovial conversations at the fair at Spancil
Hill.

 Am       G                 Am
I went to see my neighbors, to hear what they might say,
                     C         G
The old ones were all dead and gone, the young ones turning gray,
 Am                 C      G
I met with the tailor Quigley he's as bald as ever still,
    Am       G                Am
Sure he used to make me britches when I lived in Spancil Hill.

 Am      G             Am
I paid a flying visit to my first and only love,
                 C      G
She's as white as any lily and as gentle as a dove,
  Am                C         G
She threw her arms around me, saying Johnny I love you still,
     Am        G                 Am
Oh, she's Nell the farmers daughter and the flower of Spancil Hill.

 Am         G               Am
I dream't I held and kissed her, as in the days of yore,
                    C         G
She said Johnny you're only joking like many's the times before,
  Am              C         G
The cock he crew the morning, he crew both loud and shrill,
    Am     G                Am
And I awoke in California, many miles from Spancil Hill.


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