Green Island chords by Christy Moore

Chords with lyrics

Verse 1:

  FF   C majorC      A minorAm      FF
The island lies like a leaf upon the sea
   FF   C majorC        A minorAm       FF
Green island like a leaf new fallen from the tree
G+G       A minorAm
Green turns to gold
  DmDm       C majorC        G+G
As morning breezes gently shake the barley
E minorEm     G+G   A minorAm
Bending the yellow corn
G+G       A minorAm
Green turns to gold,
    DmDm       C majorC       G+G
There´s purple shadows on the distant mountains
    E minorEm     G+G   A minorAm
And the sun in the yellow corn

Verse 2:

   FF       C majorC       A minorAm        FF
They came in their longships from lands beyond the sea
   FF       C majorC        A minorAm        FF
They came in their longships, they saw the land was green
G+G      A minorAm
Wind in the barley,
DmDm        C majorC       G+G
Trout and salmon leaping in the rivers
E minorEm     G+G   A minorAm
Sun in the yellow corn
G+G    A minorAm
Leaping a shore
   DmDm          C majorC        G+G
They slaughtered those who laboured in the barley
E minorEm      G+G     A minorAm
Scything them down like corn


Verse 3:

  FF     C majorC        A minorAm      FF
The longships sailed away and new invaders came
   FF      C majorC       A minorAm         FF
With long bow and lance bringing death in England´s name
   G+G       A minorAm
With sword and with mace
     DmDm         C majorC     G+G
They went reaping through the fields of barley
   E minorEm      G+G   A minorAm
They plundered the yellow corn
G+G       A minorAm
Crop followed crop
  DmDm        C majorC         G+G
And prospered in the killing fields of barley
    E minorEm     G+G     A minorAm
In the harvest of new young corn

Verse 4:

FF    C majorC         A minorAm       FF
Marching down the years the men of war they came
   FF    C majorC         A minorAm     FF
With bombs, assassin´s bullets, c.s gas and guns
G+G        A minorAm
Ghosts from the past
  DmDm       C majorC           G+G
Are chasing shadows through the fields of barley
E minorEm      G+G   A minorAm
Hiding in the yellow corn
G+G      A minorAm
Nine hundred years
    DmDm        C majorC          G+G
They´ve tried to trap the wind that shakes the barley
    E minorEm     G+G   A minorAm
And the sun in the yellow corn


Verse 5:

  FF   C majorC      A minorAm      FF
The island lies like a leaf upon the sea
   FF   C majorC        A minorAm       FF
Green island like a leaf new fallen from the tree
G+G       A minorAm
Green turns to gold
  DmDm       C majorC        G+G
As morning breezes gently shake the barley
E minorEm     G+G   A minorAm
Bending the yellow corn
G+G      A minorAm
No force on earth
  DmDm      C majorC          G+G
Can ever trap the wind that shakes the barley
    E minorEm     G+G   A minorAm
Or the sun in the yellow corn