The Minstrel Boy chords by Misc Irish

Chords with lyrics

[email protected] (Rick Beach) writes:

>	The subject line is the name of a movie (since I don't know the
>name of the song :-(). The song is sung by Sean Connery and Michael
>Caine in the movie. I think it is an old Irish or Scottish war/glory/
>love/sacrifice ballad. It has a haunting melody and I would love to
>get chords and tab. Sorry if this is pretty vague :-(

>Rick
>[email protected]

Here are the chords to the traditional Irish song, "The Minstrel Boy
to the War Has Gone"

(I just checked my songbook: I _do_ have tab. It will take me some
time (over the weekend, I think) to get it into machine-readable form
I'll be following this up then.)

THE MINSTREL BOY TO THE WAR HAS GONE

(Traditional)

  D MajorD            A augmentedA  D MajorD
The minstrel boy to ...
    G+G   D MajorD         A augmentedA  D MajorD
In the ranks of death ...
               A augmentedA  D MajorD
His father's sword he ...
    G+G  D MajorD      A augmentedA  D MajorD
And his wild harp ...

B minorBm  A augmentedA G+G   A augmentedA    G+G A augmentedA  D MajorD
"Land of song," said the ...
    G+G        A augmentedA  D MajorD
"Though all the world ...
               A augmentedA   D MajorD
One sword at least thy ....
  G+G           A augmentedA   D MajorD
One faithDful heart ....


The minstrel fell, but .....

And said, "No chain shall .....
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            | ELYOT:  Nasty insistent little tune.
-- Alan Bostick     | AMANDA: Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
  [email protected] | Noel Coward, PRIVATE LIVES
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