The Green And Red Of Mayo lyrics and chords for The Saw Doctors

This song has being adopted as the Mayo Football team's anthem. It wasn't written as a football song but as a general song about the county, it's places and people. The Saw Doctors Songs . Along with this Mayo song there's being plenty more songs written about Mayo. The most famous of all is probably Take Me Home To Mayo which was a hit for The Dublin City Ramblers .

Oh the Green and Red of Mayo
I can see it still,.
It's[G] soft and craggy boglands, 
It's[C] tall magestic hills,
Where the[G] ocean kisses Ireland, 
The[C] waves caress it's shore
The[G] feelin' it came over me, 
To[C] stay for ever more, 
For[G] ever more,


Verse 2:
          G
From it's rolling coastal waters 
      C
I can see Croagh Patrick's peak, 
          G
where one Sunday every summer, 
    C
the pilgrims climb the reek 
          G
where St. Patrick in it's solitude, 
      C
looks out across Clew bay,
             G
and with the ringin' of his bell
           C
Called the faithful there to pray,
         G
there to pray,
(Chords as verse 2)

Take me to Clare island, 
The home of Granuaile,
It's waters harbor fishes,
From the herring to the whale,
And now I must depart it,
And reality is plain,
May the time not pass so slowly,
Till I set sail again,
Set sail again,