Paddys Lamentation chords by Linda Thompson

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 4th

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

Key: GbGb

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
D MajorD  G+G  D MajorD  G+G  E minorEm  D MajorD

Verse:
D MajorD
Well, it's by the hush, me boys
     C majorC          A minorAm
And sure, that's to hold your noise
  D MajorD               FF
And listen to poor Paddy's lamentation

Oh, I was by hunger pressed
    C majorC     A minorAm
And in poverty distressed
   DmDm         A minorAm       D MajorD
So I took a thought, I'd leave me Irish nation

Verse:
D MajorD
Well, I sold me horse and cow
  C majorC        A minorAm
Me little pigs and sow
  D MajorD                FF
Me little plot of land and I, we parted

And me sweetheart Brid McGee
   C majorC        A minorAm
I'm afraid I'll never see
   DmDm         A minorAm       D MajorD
For I left her there that morning, broken-hearted

Chorus:
           C majorC
Oh, here's you boys, now take my advice
  D MajorD               A minorAm
To America I'll have you's not be coming
     FF    Csus4Csus4  FF
There is nothing here but war
     C majorC         A minorAm
Where the murderin' cannons roar
   DmDm      C majorC    Am7Am7   D MajorD
And I wish I was at home in dear old Dublin

Instrumental:
D MajorD  C majorC A minorAm D MajorD C majorC D MajorD

Verse:
D MajorD
Well, meself and a hundred more
  C majorC       A minorAm
To America sailed o'er
  D MajorD              FF
Our fortunes to be made, we were thinkin'

But when we got to Yankee land
       C majorC      A minorAm
They shoved a gun into our hands
     DmDm       A minorAm        D MajorD
Saying, "Paddy, you must go and fight for Lincoln"

Verse:
D MajorD
Well, I thought myself in luck
   C majorC       A minorAm
To be fed on Indian buck
    D MajorD                 FF
And old Ireland, the place that I delight in

But wit' the Devil, I do say
C majorC     A minorAm
Curse Americay
  DmDm      A minorAm         D MajorD
For I am sick and tired of this hard fighting

Chorus:
           C majorC
Oh, here's you boys, now take my advice
  D MajorD               Bb majorBb A minorAm
To America I'll have you's not be coming
     FF    Csus4Csus4  FF
There is nothing here but war
     C majorC         A minorAm
Where the murderin' cannons roar
   DmDm      C majorC    Am7Am7   DmDm
And I wish I was at home in dear old Dublin
           C majorC    Am7Am7   D MajorD
Yes, I wish I was at home in dear old Dublin