Shamrock Shore chords by Karan Casey

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 4th

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

Difficulty: Novice

Verse:
  G+G          A minorAm
You brave young sons of Erin's Isle
 G+G        D MajorD
I hope you will attend awhile
     G+G         A minorAm      G+G     D MajorD
'Tis the wrongs of dear old Ireland I am going to relate
   G+G        A minorAm
'Twas black and cursed was the day
     G+G       D MajorD
When our parliament was taken away
  G+G          A minorAm      G+G        D MajorD
And all our grieves and sufferings commences from that day

Verse:
    E minorEm       FF
For our hardy sons and daughters fair
  G+G        FF
To other countries must repair
  G+G         A minorAm   B minorBm    C majorC      D MajorD
And leave their native land behind, in sorrow to deplore
  E minorEm        FF
To seek employment, they must roam
   G+G          FF
Far, far away from their native home
     G+G        A minorAm        C majorC         G+G
From that sore, oppressed island that they call the shamrock shore

Verse:
  G+G        A minorAm
Now Ireland is with plenty blessed
    G+G       D MajorD
But the people, we are sore oppressed
  G+G        A minorAm       G+G       D MajorD
All by those cursed tyrants we are forced for to obey
   G+G         A minorAm
Some haughty landlords for to please
  G+G       D MajorD
Our houses and our lands they'll seize
    G+G      A minorAm      G+G       D MajorD
To put fifty farms into one and chase us all away

Verse:
 E minorEm       FF
Regardless of the widow's sighs
  G+G         FF
The mother's tears and orphan's cries
  G+G         A minorAm     B minorBm     C majorC           D MajorD
In thousands we were driven from home, which grieves my heart full sore
    E minorEm        FF
We were forced by famine and disease
  G+G     FF
To emigrate across the seas
     G+G        A minorAm        C majorC          G+G
From that sore, oppressed island that they called the shamrock shore

Verse:
  G+G       A minorAm
Our sustenance all taken away
  G+G        D MajorD
The tithes and taxes for to pay
   G+G        A minorAm        G+G        D MajorD
To support that law-protected church to which they do adhere
    G+G       A minorAm
And our Irish gentry, well you know
  G+G        D MajorD
To other countries they do go
    G+G       A minorAm      G+G          D MajorD
And the money from old Ireland, they squandered here and there

Verse:
  E minorEm          FF
For if our squires would stay at home
  G+G           FF
And not to other countries roam
  G+G         A minorAm    B minorBm    C majorC    D MajorD
But to build mills and factories here to employ the labouring poor
    E minorEm        FF
For if we had trade and commerce here
  G+G      FF
To me no nation could compare
    G+G        A minorAm        C majorC         G+G
To that sore, oppressed island that they call the shamrock shore

Verse:
   G+G          A minorAm
John Bull, he boasts, he laughs with scorn
    G+G       D MajorD
And he says that Irishman is born
   G+G      A minorAm       G+G           D MajorD
To be always discontented, for at home we cannot agree
     G+G         A minorAm
But we'll banish the tyrants from our land
    G+G      D MajorD
And in harmony like sisters stand
   G+G         A minorAm       C majorC     D MajorD
To demand the rights of Ireland, let us all united be

Verse:
    E minorEm      FF
And our parliament in College Green
G+G          FF
For to assemble, it will be seen
  G+G       A minorAm   B minorBm    C majorC     D MajorD
And happy days in Erin's Isle, we soon will have once more
  E minorEm        FF
And dear old Ireland soon will be
 G+G         FF
A augmentedA great and glorious country
  G+G          A minorAm          C majorC         G+G
And peace and blessings soon will smile all around the shamrock shore