Oro Oro Lyrics And Chords By The Fureys And Davie Arthur
Written by Finbar Furey with guitar chords by Marc Fahrbach, the tune was borrowed from the Padraig Pearse marching song 'Óró Sé Do Bheatha Abhaile [ lyrics ]' . A song of emigration to find work and leave the land behind. Alas the story in the song has come back again to haunt the Irish. The politicians have run our great little country into the ground while they were in the hands of the greedy builders and developers.
[Em)Oro, oro,
(D)oro Abhaile Michael (Em)O Ro Se do Bheatha A(D)bhaile But (Em)find us (D)bloody (Em)work there From (Em)Donegal to the County Kerry, From (D)Belfast City to the hills of Derry We (Em)come from Clare, from Meath and (D)Mayo To (Em)work a(D)cross the (Em)ocean Chorus I (Em)see Rossleare and the Wexford Harbor The (D)Waterford coast with the fishing trawler We (Em)crossed Kildare right through to (D)Carlow To (Em)work a(D)cross the (Em)ocean Chorus I'm (Em)tired of leaving the hills of Galway I'm (D)fed up with sailing away from Dublin We (Em)just left Limerick and Cork be(D)hind us To (Em)work a(D)cross the (Em)ocean Chorus I'm (Em)tired of the tears from me mother Katie [ lyrics ] I'm (D)fed up with leaving my sister Mary And (Em)my father sayin, "Take it nice and (D)easy.” When (Em)workin' a(D)cross the (Em)ocean Chorus We (Em)don't need the pity of the politicians With (D)their crocodile tears and useless petitions Just (Em)give us some work with suitable po(D)sitions Stop the (Em)exodus a(D)cross the (Em)ocean |
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