The Banks Of The Lee chords by The Longest Johns

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

🎸 Verse 1:
   B minorBm          A minorAm
When two lovers meet down beside the green bower
   B minorBm          A minorAm        F#maj
when two lovers meet down beneath the green tree
   B minorBm        A minorAm
When Mary, fond Mary, declared unto her lover
   B minorBm                A minorAm      E MajorE
You have stolen my poor heart from the Banks of the Lee


🎸 Chorus:
 B minorBm            A minorAm
I loved her very dearly, so truly and sincerely
     B minorBm                A minorAm     F#sus4F#sus4 F#maj
There was no one in this wide world I loved better than she
   B minorBm             A minorAm
Every bush and every bower, every wild Irish flower
    B minorBm          A minorAm      E MajorE
Reminds me of my Mary, on the banks of the Lee

🎸 Verse 2:
   B minorBm                A minorAm
Well don't stay out late, love, on the moorlands, my Mary
   B minorBm                A minorAm       F#maj
Well don't stay out late, love, on the moorlands from me
  B minorBm              A minorAm
How little was our notion when Versed on the ocean
    B minorBm              A minorAm      E MajorE
That we were Versed from the Banks of the Lee


🎸 Chorus:
 B minorBm            A minorAm
I loved her very dearly, so truly and sincerely
     B minorBm                A minorAm     F#sus4F#sus4 F#maj
There was no one in this wide world I loved better than she
   B minorBm             A minorAm
Every bush and every bower, every wild Irish flower
    B minorBm          A minorAm      E MajorE
Reminds me of my Mary, on the banks of the Lee


🎸 Verse 3:
    B minorBm               A minorAm
I will pluck my love some roses, some blooming Irish roses
    B minorBm              A minorAm        F#maj
I will pluck my love some roses, the fairest that ever grew
     B minorBm             A minorAm
And I'll lay them on the grave of my own true lovely Mary
    B minorBm                  A minorAm        E MajorE
In that cold and silent church yard where she sleeps 'neath the dew

🎸 Chorus:
 B minorBm            A minorAm
I loved her very dearly, so truly and sincerely
     B minorBm                A minorAm     F#sus4F#sus4 F#maj
There was no one in this wide world I loved better than she
   B minorBm             A minorAm
Every bush and every bower, every wild Irish flower
    B minorBm          A minorAm      E MajorE
Reminds me of my Mary, on the banks of the Lee


Chord info:
B minorBm   224432
A minorAm   002220
F#maj 244322
F#sus4F#sus4 244422
E MajorE   022100