Young Ned Of The Hill chords by The Pogues

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 3rd

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

Intro:
A minorAm E minorEm A minorAm E minorEm A minorAm
E minorEm A minorAm E minorEm A minorAm


Verse 1:
             E minorEm
Have you ever walked the lonesome hills
  A minorAm        E minorEm
And heard the curlews cry
  A minorAm
Or seen the raven black as night
A minorAm
Upon a windswept sky
A minorAm
To walk the purple heather
         E minorEm
And hear the westwind cry
A minorAm            E minorEm    A minorAm
To know that's where the rapparee must die

Verse 2:
A minorAm            E minorEm
Since Cromwell pushed us westward
  A minorAm       E minorEm
To live our lowly lives
        A minorAm        E minorEm
There's some of us have deemed to fight
     A minorAm
From Tipperary mountains high
            E minorEm
Noble men with wills of iron
      C majorC     G+G
Who are not afraid to die
    A minorAm        E minorEm     A minorAm
Who'll fight with gaelic honour held on high

Verse 3:
A minorAm           E minorEm
A augmentedA curse upon you Oliver Cromwell
    A minorAm       E minorEm
You who raped our Motherland
 A minorAm         E minorEm
I hope you're rotting down in hell
    A minorAm
For the horrors that you sent
          E minorEm
To our misfortunate forefathers
     C majorC          G+G
Whom you robbed of their birthright
           A minorAm    E minorEm       A minorAm
"To hell or Connaught" may you burn in hell tonight

Verse 4:
N.C.           E minorEm
Of such a man I'd like to speak
 A minorAm          E minorEm
A augmentedA rapparee by name and deed
      A minorAm        E minorEm
His family dispossessed and slaughtered
      A minorAm
They put a price upon his head
               E minorEm
His name is know in song and story
  C majorC         G+G
His deeds are 🏷Legends still
E minorEm A minorAm         E minorEm
And murdered for blood money
  A minorAm
Was young Ned of the hill

Verse 5:
               E minorEm
You have robbed our homes and fortunes
   A minorAm        E minorEm
Even drove us from our land
  A minorAm         E minorEm
You tried to break our spirit
      A minorAm
But you'll never understand
           E minorEm
The love of dear old Ireland
     C majorC       G+G
That will forge and iron will
  A minorAm        E minorEm
As long as there are gallant men
   A minorAm
Like young Ned of the hill

Verse 6:
A minorAm           E minorEm
A augmentedA curse upon you Oliver Cromwell
    A minorAm       E minorEm
You who raped our Motherland
 A minorAm         E minorEm
I hope you're rotting down in hell
    A minorAm
For the horrors that you sent
          E minorEm
To our misfortunate forefathers
     C majorC          G+G
Whom you robbed of their birthright
           A minorAm    E minorEm       A minorAm
"To hell or Connaught" may you burn in hell tonight

Outro:
A minorAm E minorEm A minorAm E minorEm A minorAm E minorEm A minorAm  C majorC G+G
A minorAm E minorEm A minorAm

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