Duffys Cut chords by Christy Moore

• Difficulty: Beginner

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