Johnny Of Bradys Lea chords by Planxty

Chords with lyrics

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

Key: A augmentedA

Difficulty: Novice

Verse 1:
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Oh, Johnny rose on a May morning,
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Called for water to wash his hands,
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Saying “Bring to me my two grey dogs,
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That lie bound in iron bands.”
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When Johnny’s mother she heard of this,
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She wrung her hands full sore,
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Says “Johnny, for your venison
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To the green woods do not go.”

Verse 2:
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“For there are seven foresters in Esslemont,
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And this you know full well,
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For one small drop of your heart’s blood
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They would ride to the gates of Hell.”
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“Oh, there’s many men are my friends, Mother,
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Though many more are my foe.
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And betide me well or betide me ill,
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A-hunting I will go.”

Verse 3:
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So Johnny has taken his good bent bow,
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His arrows one by one,
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And he’s away to Monymusk
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For to bring the dun deer down.

Instrumental:
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Verse 4:
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Oh, Johnny shot and the dun deer rose,
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He’s wounded her in the side.
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And between the water and the woods,
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The two dogs laid her pride.
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And they ate so much of the venison,
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They drank so much of the blood,
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That Johnny and his two grey dogs
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Fell asleep as if they had been dead.

Verse 5:
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And by there came a sly old man,
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A augmentedA silly old man was he,
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And he’s away to Esslemont
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For to tell on young Johnny.
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“As I came in by Monymusk,
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And down among yon scrogs,
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It was there I spied the bonniest youth
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Lying sleeping between two dogs.”

Verse 6:
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“And the buttons that were on his coat
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Were of the gold so good,
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And the two grey dogs that he lay between,
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Their mouths they were died with blood.”
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And up and spoke the first forester,
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He was headsman over them all,
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“Can this be Johnny of Brady’s Lea?
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Unto him we will crawl.”

Verse 7:
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And the very first shot that the foresters fired,
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It wounded him in the thigh,
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The very next shot that the foresters fired,
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His heart’s blood blinded his eye.
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Then up woke Johnny from out of his sleep,
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An angry man was he.
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He says “The wildest wolf in all this wood
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Would not have done so by me.”

Verse 8:
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And he’s leaned his back against an oak,
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His foot against a stone,
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And he has fired on the seven foresters,
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He’s killed them all but one.
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And he’s broken seven of this man’s ribs,
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His arm and his collarbone,
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And he has set him on to his horse,
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To bring the tidings home.

Verse 9:
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Johnny’s good bent bow is broke,
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And his two grey dogs are slain,
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And his body lies in Monymusk,
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And his hunting days are done.