The Girls In Old Ireland chords by The Stillwater Hobos

Chords with lyrics

D MajorD
Well the Girls in Old Ireland they come to me
                A augmentedA
Bloody shillelagh clubs for to set me free
B minorBm
I said my lady?s fair won?t you listen to me
     G+G        D MajorD
And I?ll bring you to your bonnie lass.
  D MajorD
In fifty-two the hunger took us by surprise
              A augmentedA
Water fell into my mother?s crying eyes
  B minorBm
We wailed just like the doves in the morning cries
    G+G         D MajorD
And the crops were sick in harvest time.

    D MajorD
But my mother she was wise and she raised me well
                   A augmentedA
She told me all the things that there was to tell
B minorBm
Precious you sure listen cause you need me now
    G+G        D MajorD
In the years to come I won?t be there.
   D MajorD
Just take a hard shillelagh in your hands so strong
                A augmentedA
Always hold it gently when they do you wrong
  B minorBm
But when you hear John Henry?s solemn hammer song
  G+G           D MajorD
God give you strength like turpentine.

  D MajorD
And darling you?re a peach tree in the summer sun
                  A augmentedA
With bonnie little branches always on the run
     B minorBm
And when cold winds shake your branches like a crooked gun
G+G        D MajorD
I?ll be there my cherub son.
    D MajorD
Like a mockingbird who laughs because there?s someone there
                A augmentedA
To wonder if they ever would discover where
   B minorBm
He's hiding in the trees without a worried care
G+G         D MajorD
Streetcars in the alleyway.

     D MajorD
Well the Girls in Old Ireland they come to me
                     A augmentedA
Let their bloody kings and clubs be their melodies
 B minorBm
A augmentedA whiskey-fog still burning in my memory
G+G       D MajorD
Scattered all along the grass.