The Wind That Shakes The Barley Lyrics Chords And Music
By Robert Dwyer Joyce. An Irish love song.The guitar chords are in the key of Dm in chordpro. This one goes back to the 1860s an commemorates the 1798 rising. The sheet music and tin whistle notes are included. Boolavogue song is also written about the events that took place during the 1798 rebellion in Ireland.
[Dm]I sat with[Gm]in a[Dm] valley[Am green
[Dm]Sat there[C] with my[Dm] true love And my fond heart[Gm] strove to[Dm] choose be[Am]tween The[Dm] old love[C] and the[Dm] new love The old for her, the[C] new that made Me[Bb] think on Ireland[Am] dearly While[Dm] soft the[Gm] wind blew[Dm] down the[Am] glade And[Dm] shook the[C] golden[Dm] barley Twas hard the mournful words to frame To break the ties that bound us Ah, but harder still to bear the shame Of foreign chains around us And so I said, "The mountain glen I'll seek at morning early And join the brave united men" While soft wind shook the barley Twas sad I kissed away her tears Her arms around me clinging When to my ears that fateful shot Come out the wildwood ringing The bullet pierced my true love's breast In life's young spring so early And there upon my breast she died While soft wind shook the barley I bore her to some mountain stream And many's the summer blossom I placed with branches soft and green About her gore-stained bosom I wept and kissed her clay-cold corpse Then rushed o'er vale and valley My vengeance on the foe to wreak While soft wind shook the barley Twas blood for blood without remorse I took at Oulart Hollow I placed my true love's clay-cold corpse Where mine full soon may follow Around her grave I wondered drear Noon, night and morning early With aching heart when e'er I hear The wind that shakes the barley. |
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