Roddy Mccorley chords by Tommy Makem

• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: D

Intro:

 D | D | G A : D

Verse 1:
   D
O see the fleet-foot host of men,
      G          A     D
Who speed with faces drawn,
       D                 G        D
From farmstead and from fishers' cot,
  Bm       Em       A
Along the banks of Ban;
      D                  G        D
They come with vengeance in their eyes.
     Bm        Em        A
Too late! Too late are they,
           D
For young Roddy McCorley goes to die
         G              D
On the bridge of Toome today.

Verse 2:
D
Up the narrow street he stepped,
  G        A        D
Smiling, proud and young.
  D                 G       D
About the hemp-rope on his neck,
     Bm     Em        A
The golden ringlets clung;
          D               G       G
There is never a tear in his blue eyes,
       Bm      Em         A
Both glad and right are they,
          D
As young Roddy McCorley goes to die
         G              D
On the bridge of Toome today.

Verse 3:
  D
When he last stepped up that street,
      G      A       D
His shining pike in hand
    D                    G     D
Behind him marched, in grim array,
    Bm     Em       A
A stalwart earnest band.
     D                 G       D
Poor Antrim town! Poor Antrim town,
    Bm       Em      A
He led them to the fray,
           D
And young Roddy McCorley goes to die
         G              D
On the bridge of Toome today.

Verse 4:
          D
There is never a one of all your dead
      G       A       D
Who bravely fled in fray
      D              G      D
Than he who marches to his fate
         Bm       Em      A
On the bridge of Toome today;
     D                  G      D
True to the last! True to the last,
     Bm      Em      A
He steps the upward way,
           D
And young Roddy McCorley goes to die
         G              D
On the bridge of Toome today

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