Dunlavin Green chords by Karan Casey

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xKaran Casey - Dunlavin Green


Capo 1


Intro:
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Verse 1:
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In the year of one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight
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A augmentedA sorrowful tale, the truth unto you I'll relate
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Thirty-six heroes, to the world they were left to be seen
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By a false information, were shot on Dunlavin Green

Verse 2:
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Bad luck to you, Saunders, for you did their lives betray
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You said a parade would be held on that very same day
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Our drums, they did rattle, our fifes, they did sweetly play
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Surrounded we were and privately marched away

Verse 3:
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Quite easy they led us like prisoners through the town
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To be shot on the plain, we first were forced to kneel down
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Such grief and such sorrow were never before there seen
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When the blood ran in the streams down the dykes of Dunlavin Green

Verse 4:
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There is young Matty Farrell, who has plenty of cause to complain
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Likewise the two Duffys, who were shot down upon the plain
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Young Andy Ryan, his mother distracted, will run
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For the loss of her darling, her only beloved son

Verse 5:
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Some of our boys to the hills, they are going away
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Some of them shot and more of them going to stay
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Michael Dwyer in the mountains to Saunders, he owes a spleen
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For loss of his brothers who were shot on Dunlavin Green

Verse 6:
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Bad luck to you, Saunders, bad luck may you never shun
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May the widow's curse melt you like snow in the noonday sun
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Cries of the orphans, their murmurs you cannot screen
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For the loss of their fathers who were shot on Dunlavin Green

Verse 7:
    DmDm             C majorC      DmDm
In the year of one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight
                 C majorC     DmDm
A augmentedA sorrowful tale, the truth unto you I'll relate
G+G             A7A7       DmDm     A minorAm  Am7Am7
Thirty-six heroes, to the world they were left to be seen
   DmDm     Bb majorBb      A minorAm     DmDm
By a false information, were shot on Dunlavin Green