Erins Lovely Home chords by Karan Casey

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 2nd

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

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
G+G

Verse:
           C majorC    G+G    C majorC   D MajorD  G+G
Come, all ye sons of Paddy's land and listen unto me
     D MajorD      C majorC         G+G         D MajorD
'Til I relate of the hardships great, a-crossing o'er the sea
    G+G         C majorC         G+G       E minorEm
For the want of bread, ten thousands fled, so far across the foam
  G+G          C majorC     G+G      A minorAm   D MajorD   G+G
And left the land where they were born, called Erin's lovely home

Verse:
            C majorC    G+G       C majorC    D MajorD      G+G
Black forty-seven I'll never forget, when the fever it stalked the land
        D MajorD    C majorC          G+G         D MajorD
And the famine without mercy, it stretched forth its dreadful hand
    G+G          C majorC           G+G        E minorEm
There's many's the child in cold death lay, their parents they did mourn
   G+G            C majorC    G+G     A minorAm   D MajorD   G+G
While landlord's agents pulled down our roofs, in Erin's lovely home

Verse:
        C majorC    G+G     C majorC  D MajorD  G+G
My father was a farming man, reared to industry
      D MajorD     C majorC          G+G        D MajorD
He had two sons, they were men strong, and lovely daughters three
         G+G    C majorC        G+G         E minorEm
Our farm was too small to feed us all, so some of us had to roam
   G+G       C majorC  G+G    A minorAm   D MajorD   G+G
With sisters two, I bid adieu, to Erin's lovely home

Verse:
          C majorC   G+G    C majorC    D MajorD   G+G
My father sold the second cow, he borrowed twenty pounds
      D MajorD       C majorC    G+G         D MajorD
And in the merry month of May, we sailed from Sligo town
      G+G          C majorC         G+G       E minorEm
There were thousands more left upon the shore, all anxious for to roam
  G+G          C majorC     G+G      A minorAm   D MajorD   C majorC
And leave the land where they were born, called Erin's lovely home

Instrumental:
E minorEm G+G E minorEm G+G A minorAm G+G D MajorD G+G C majorC

Verse:
    G+G       C majorC    G+G       C majorC    D MajorD      G+G
We were scarcely seven days at sea, when the fever it plagued our crew
     D MajorD        C majorC           G+G         D MajorD
They were falling like the autumn leaves, bidding friends and life adieu
    G+G         C majorC         G+G        E minorEm
Now the raging waves sweep o'er their graves amidst the ocean foam
   G+G               C majorC    G+G    A minorAm   D MajorD   G+G
Their friends may mourn, but they'll never return, to Erin's lovely home

Verse:
            C majorC     G+G     C majorC        D MajorD   G+G
My loving sisters, they both took ill, their lives they were taken away
      D MajorD           C majorC    G+G        D MajorD
And oh, it grieves my heart full sore, to cast them in the sea
      G+G        C majorC      G+G        E minorEm
Down in the deep now they do sleep, they never more will roam
  G+G            C majorC    G+G      A minorAm   D MajorD   G+G
In heaven I'll meet with my sisters sweet, from Erin's lovely home

Verse:
          C majorC  G+G     C majorC     D MajorD   G+G
I'm in the land of liberty, where plenty it does abound
          D MajorD    C majorC          G+G       D MajorD
Where the labouring man gets full reward, for the tilling of his ground
    G+G             C majorC         G+G      E minorEm
There's naught I can see that can comfort me, as an exile I must roam
  G+G        C majorC  G+G     A minorAm   D MajorD   G+G
And end my days far, far away, from Erin's lovely home