Banna Strand chords by The Wolfe Tones

Chords with lyrics

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

Key: G+G

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
G+G

Verse 1:
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'Twas on Good Friday morning
  C majorC        G+G
All in the month of May
 D7D7       G+G
A augmentedA German ship was signalling
 C majorC     G+G
Beyond out in the bay
  D7D7       G+G
With twenty thousand rifles
  C majorC     G+G
All ready for to land
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But no answering signals did come from
   C majorC       G+G
The lonely Banna Strand

Verse 2:
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No signal answers from the shore
 C majorC        G+G
Sir Roger sadly said
 D7D7       G+G
No comrades here to meet me
  C majorC     G+G
Alas, they must be dead
  D7D7       G+G
But I must do my duty
  C majorC        G+G
And at once I mean to land
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So in a small boat pulled ashore
    C majorC      G+G
On the lonely Banna Strand

Verse 3:
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Now, the RIC were hunting for
 C majorC        G+G
Sir Roger high and low
   D7D7       G+G
They found him at McKenna's Fort
  C majorC        G+G
Said they, "You are our foe"
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Said he, "I'm Roger Casement
  C majorC        G+G
I came to my native land

I mean to free my countrymen
  C majorC        G+G
On the lonely Banna Strand"

Verse 4:
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They took Sir Roger prisoner
  C majorC        G+G
And sailed for London Town
  D7D7       G+G
And in the Tower they laid him
  C majorC        G+G
A augmentedA traitor to the Crown
   D7D7       G+G
Said he, "I am no traitor"
   C majorC        G+G
But his trial he had to stand

For bringing German rifles to
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The lonely Banna Strand

Verse 5:
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'Twas in an English prison that
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They led him to his death
  D7D7       G+G
"I'm dying for my country"

He said with his last breath
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They buried him in British soil
  C majorC        G+G
Far from his native land

And the wild waves sing his requiem
   C majorC        G+G
On the lonely Banna Strand

Verse 6:
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They took Sir Roger home again
   C majorC        G+G
In the year of Sixty-Five
  D7D7       G+G
And with his comrades of Sixteen
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In peace and tranquil lies
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His last fond wish, it is fulfilled
  C majorC        G+G
For to lie in his native land

And the waves will roll in peace again
  C majorC        G+G
On the lonely Banna Strand