Duffys Cut Chords

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E) 🎸 Verse: D In the summer of 1832 A The sailing ship John Stamp Em G Tied up into the port of Pennsylvania D Up the ladder from the cargo deck A Men and women crept Em Bm Into the open skies above 🎸 Verse: D Dia is Muire Dhuit agus Failte Romhat A Duffy’s my name, I cut through stone Em Work for me, I’m one of your own G A7 In dollars I will pay you

🎸 Verse: D 57 men signed up, A Duffy promised to fill their cup Em If they cut the Malvern Valley up G Bm G A Mile 59 had to be on time for the railway line 🎸 Chorus: A D From Ballyshannon and The Glenties D They sailed right into hell D G A They suffered like the weeping Christ G A Down Duffy’s Cut they sweat their blood Bm G Into his wishing well 🎸 Bridge: D Were they taken by the sickness? D Were they hunted down like scum? D G A Was there poison in the water? A G A Was it cholera or murder? Bm G The smoke that hid the bullets G D G Bm A From the barrel of the boss’s g u n 🎸 Instrumental: G Bm G Bm G Bm A A7 🎸 Verse: D The Blacksmith and the Holy Sisters A Good people through and through Em Whispered prayers into the victim’s ears G It’s all that they could do 🎸 Verse: D A How come the bosses had silence on their lips A Em G As 57 Irish Navies were buried in a pit A Em No stone to mark their resting place Bm G A No one to mourn their passing 🎸 Chorus: A D From Ballyshannon and The Glenties D They sailed right into hell D G A They suffered like the weeping Christ G A Down Duffy’s Cut they sweat their blood Bm G Into his wishing well 🎸 Verse: D Were they taken by the sickness? D Were they hunted down like scum? D G A Was there poison in the water? A G A Was it cholera or murder? Bm G The smoke that hid the bullets G D G Bm A From the barrel of the boss’s g u n 🎸 Outro: A D From Ballyshannon and The Glenties D They sailed right into hell D G A They suffered like the weeping Christ G A Down Duffy’s Cut they sweat their blood Bm G Into his wishing well D G Bm A Into his wishing w e ll