Bonny Irish Boy chords by Steeleye Span

Chords with lyrics

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

Intro:
| B minorBm  | A augmentedA  | G+G  | A augmentedA  | x2


Verse 1:
  B minorBm       A augmentedA
As I roved out one morning
  G+G        A augmentedA
All in the blooming spring
 B minorBm     A augmentedA
I overheard a damsel
  G+G     A augmentedA
So grievously sing
    B minorBm      A augmentedA
Saying cruel were my parents
  G+G      A augmentedA
Who did me sore annoy
   B minorBm        A augmentedA       G+G      A augmentedA
They would not let me tarry with my bonny Irish boy

Interlude:
| B minorBm  | A augmentedA  | G+G  | A augmentedA  |


Verse 2:
  B minorBm        A augmentedA
His hair is like the chestnut brown
  G+G        A augmentedA
His eyes as black as sloes;
   B minorBm      A augmentedA
He is meek in his behaviour
  G+G       A augmentedA
Wherever that he goes
   B minorBm        A augmentedA
He is well-sized, both neat and wise
    G+G       A augmentedA
Like a maiden's chastity
   B minorBm      A augmentedA
If I had my will I would be still
  G+G       A augmentedA
In my love's company


Interlude:
| B minorBm  | A augmentedA  | G+G  | A augmentedA  | x4


Verse 3:
  B minorBm      A augmentedA
If I had all the riches now
   G+G         A augmentedA
That great men have in store
   B minorBm      A augmentedA
'Tis freely I'd bestow them
    G+G      A augmentedA
On the man that I adore;
  B minorBm     A augmentedA
His beauty so entangled me
 G+G      A augmentedA
I never can deny
    B minorBm     A augmentedA
In the arms of my labouring boy
 G+G        A augmentedA
I mean to live and die


Outro:
| B minorBm  | A augmentedA  | G+G  | A augmentedA  | x4
| B minorBm  |