Lily chords by Christy Moore

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Beginner

🎸 Verse 1:
   G+G        E minorEm        C majorC       D MajorD
I crossed the River Liffey bridge and went on up the town
D MajorD            A minorAm       G+G       D MajorD
By Coffey’s clock twas plain to see how time was moving on
 C majorC         D MajorD        D MajorD          E minorEm
Past Neeson’s and John Johnson’s, Tommy Tougher’s and Keadeen
     G+G          E minorEm   C majorC           D MajorD
How’s it going said Paddy Dolan, game ball said Skinner Behan

🎸 Verse 2:
 G+G         E minorEm        C majorC        D MajorD
The morning hooter called the workers to the factory line
D MajorD            A minorAm     G+G        D MajorD
To weave the bales of sisal into rope and binder twine
C majorC          D MajorD      D MajorD         E minorEm
Beneath the weeping ash I heard Jack Lawlor’s anvil ring
G+G            E minorEm       C majorC       D MajorD
Back down the town in Cummins’s heard John McCormack Sing

🎸 Chorus:
    G+G      D MajorD       C majorC        D MajorD
From Hawkfield and Kilbelin, Chinatown and Rosy’s Lane
FF           E minorEm         C majorC      D MajorD
Scattered round the world we dreamt of coming home again
     G+G     C majorC   G+G      G+G     D MajorD   C majorC
From the Rocks of Sydney Harbour, the Bronx and Birmingham
    A minorAm        D MajorD       A minorAm        D7D7
To the Sandy Hills, the Seven Springs, The waters of the Fen

🎸 Verse 3:
 G+G        E minorEm         C majorC       D MajorD
Walking down the Moorefield Road my father tellin me
D MajorD        A minorAm       G+G  D MajorD
Of the Corbally eviction back in 1953
C majorC       D MajorD      D MajorD       E minorEm
The story of Clongorey, the hunger and despair
G+G       E minorEm        C majorC     D MajorD
Gone but not forgotten in the history of Kildar

🎸 Verse 4:
G+G         E minorEm       C majorC        D MajorD
To stand upon the Gibbet Rath I walked along the Plains
D MajorD           A minorAm           G+G   D MajorD
By Donnelly’s Hollow heard the keening of the Curragh Wrens
C majorC           D MajorD     D MajorD            E minorEm
Black & Tans in The Barracks as young rebels crossed the fields
G+G              E minorEm      C majorC      D MajorD
From the back lanes and the boreens came Sheahans and O’Neills

🎸 Chorus:
    G+G      D MajorD       C majorC        D MajorD
From Hawkfield and Kilbelin, Chinatown and Rosy’s Lane
FF           E minorEm         C majorC      D MajorD
Scattered round the world we dreamt of coming home again
     G+G     C majorC   G+G      G+G     D MajorD   C majorC
From the Rocks of Sydney Harbour, the Bronx and Birmingham
    A minorAm        D MajorD       A minorAm        D7D7
To the Sandy Hills, the Seven Springs, The waters of the Fen

🎸 Verse 5:
G+G          E minorEm      C majorC     D MajorD
Here comes Darky Prendergast and Mrs Charlie Weld
D MajorD           A minorAm        G+G       D MajorD
The Halfords and The Edderys, the Brabazons and the Bells
C majorC          D MajorD      D MajorD         E minorEm
The Owners and The Trainers, stallions and brood mares
 G+G         E minorEm        C majorC      D MajorD
Fillies, colts and yearlings on the gallops of Kildare

🎸 Verse 6:
  G+G         E minorEm      C majorC        D MajorD
The Roo, The Goo and Gandy, every nickname brings a smile
   D MajorD        A minorAm       G+G        D MajorD
Tell Fid, Conks and Corney I’ll be home in a little while
C majorC    D MajorD       D MajorD       E minorEm         G+G
As the sun goes down behind the Town we’ll gather on the strand
G+G            E minorEm     C majorC         D MajorD
Dance to Jimmy Dunny’s orchestra, Tom Wilmot’s Ceili band

🎸 Chorus:
    G+G      D MajorD       C majorC        D MajorD
From Hawkfield and Kilbelin, Chinatown and Rosy’s Lane
FF           E minorEm         C majorC      D MajorD
Scattered round the world we dreamt of coming home again
     G+G     C majorC   G+G      G+G     D MajorD   C majorC
From the Rocks of Sydney Harbour, the Bronx and Birmingham
    A minorAm        D MajorD       A minorAm        D7D7
To the Sandy Hills, the Seven Springs, The waters of the Fen