The Wind That Shakes The Corn Lyrics And Guitar Chords

The Irish Rovers, the tune of this song is very similar to The Homes Of Donegal and Tramps And Hawkers-Guitar chords by Alda. The song tells of a young man who leaves his sweetheart and fights for his country in the 1798 rebellion after the love of his life is shot dead by the British.
The song Boolavogue deals also with the events of the 1798 rising in Ireland.

I [C]sat within the [F]valley green
I [G]sat with my true [C]love
My sad heart had to [F]choose be[C]tween
Old Ireland and my [F]love
I [C]looked at her and [F]then I [C]thought
How Ireland was [F]torn
While [C]soft the wind blew [F]down the glen
And [G]shook the golden [C]corn

T'was hard the woeful words to bring
To break the ties that bound
But harder still to bear the shame
Of English chains around
And so I said, the mountain glen
I'll seek in early morn
And join the brave united men
While soft wind shook the corn

While sad I kissed away her tears
My fond arms round her clung
A British shot burst in our ears
From out of the wild woods round
One bullet pierced my true love's side
A rose pierced by a thorn
And in my arms in blood she died
While soft wind shook the corn

So blood for blood without remorse
I've taken in the glen
I placed my true love's clayful corpse
I joined true Irish men
But around her grave I wander drear
Sometimes in early morn
And with breaking heart sometimes I hear
The wind that shakes the corn.

TheWind That Shakes The Barley song lyrics is also on the site
and deals with the same rebellion of 1798.