The Star O Rabbie Burns chords by Kenneth Mckellar

• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Key: C

🎸 Intro:

C F C G7 C




🎸 Verse 1:
      C               F       C
There is a star whose beaming ray
   C       D     Dm   G
Is shed on ev'ry clime.
   C         C/E       F         D/F#
It shines by night, it shines by day
    G           D      G
And ne'er grows dim wi' time.
   G/F     G              C
It rose upon the banks of Ayr
D7                   Gsus  G
It shone on Doon's clear stream -
    C                          F    Dm
Twa hundred years are gane and mair
C        G7        C
Yet brighter grows its Beam.

🎸 Chorus:
    C
Let kings and courtiers rise and fa'
F         C/E  D7   G
This world has mony turns
    C        C/E    F    C/E  Dm
Yet brightly beams abeen them a'
    C       G7     C
The star o' Rabbie Burns.

🎸 Verse 2:
       C            F         C
Though he was but a ploughman lad
    C        D      Dm   G
And wore the hodden grey
C        C/E      F        D/F#
Auld Scotia's sweetest bard was bred
   G     D      G
Aneath a roof o'strae.
    G/F       G                   C
Tae sweep the strings o' Scotia's lyre
D7               Gsus  G
It needs nae classic lore;
     C             F      Dm
It's mither wit an native fire
     C         G7      C
That warms the bosom's core.

🎸 Chorus:
    C
Let kings and courtiers rise and fa'
F        C/E   D7   G
This world has mony turns
    C        C/E    F    C/E  Dm
Yet brightly beams abeen them a'
    C       G7     C
The star o' Rabbie Burns.