Duffys Cut chords by Christy Moore

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Beginner

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

🎸 Verse:
D MajorD
In the summer of 1832
A augmentedA
The sailing ship John Stamp
E minorEm               G+G
Tied up into the port of Pennsylvania
D MajorD
Up the ladder from the cargo deck
A augmentedA
Men and women crept
E minorEm          B minorBm
Into the open skies above

🎸 Verse:
D MajorD
Dia is Muire Dhuit agus Failte Romhat
A augmentedA
Duffy’s my name, I cut through stone
E minorEm
Work for me, I’m one of your own
G+G           A7A7
In dollars I will pay you

🎸 Verse:
D MajorD
57 men signed up,
A augmentedA
Duffy promised to fill their cup
E minorEm
If they cut the Malvern Valley up
G+G    B minorBm            G+G  A augmentedA
Mile 59 had to be on time for the railway line

🎸 Chorus:
A augmentedA     D MajorD
From Ballyshannon and The Glenties
D MajorD
They sailed right into hell
D MajorD  G+G         A augmentedA
They suffered like the weeping Christ
G+G           A augmentedA
Down Duffy’s Cut they sweat their blood
B minorBm        G+G
Into his wishing well

🎸 Bridge:
D MajorD
Were they taken by the sickness?
D MajorD
Were they hunted down like scum?
D MajorD     G+G       A augmentedA
Was there poison in the water?
A augmentedA   G+G     A augmentedA
Was it cholera or murder?
B minorBm           G+G
The smoke that hid the bullets
G+G    D MajorD          G+G B minorBm A augmentedA
From the barrel of the boss’s g u  n

🎸 Instrumental:
G+G B minorBm G+G B minorBm G+G B minorBm A augmentedA A7A7

🎸 Verse:
D MajorD
The Blacksmith and the Holy Sisters
A augmentedA
Good people through and through
E minorEm
Whispered prayers into the victim’s ears
G+G
It’s all that they could do

🎸 Verse:
D MajorD            A augmentedA
How come the bosses had silence on their lips
A augmentedA   E minorEm        G+G
As 57 Irish Navies were buried in a pit
A augmentedA           E minorEm
No stone to mark their resting place
B minorBm          G+G  A augmentedA
No one to mourn their passing

🎸 Chorus:
A augmentedA     D MajorD
From Ballyshannon and The Glenties
D MajorD
They sailed right into hell
D MajorD  G+G         A augmentedA
They suffered like the weeping Christ
G+G           A augmentedA
Down Duffy’s Cut they sweat their blood
B minorBm        G+G
Into his wishing well

🎸 Verse:
D MajorD
Were they taken by the sickness?
D MajorD
Were they hunted down like scum?
D MajorD     G+G       A augmentedA
Was there poison in the water?
A augmentedA   G+G     A augmentedA
Was it cholera or murder?
B minorBm           G+G
The smoke that hid the bullets
G+G    D MajorD          G+G B minorBm A augmentedA
From the barrel of the boss’s g u  n

🎸 Outro:
A augmentedA     D MajorD
From Ballyshannon and The Glenties
D MajorD
They sailed right into hell
D MajorD  G+G         A augmentedA
They suffered like the weeping Christ
G+G           A augmentedA
Down Duffy’s Cut they sweat their blood
B minorBm        G+G
Into his wishing well
D MajorD        G+G B minorBm A augmentedA
Into his wishing w e ll