Chords for Christy Moore - Only Our Rives Run Free

[C] When apples [G] still grow [C] in November, _ _ _
[F] When blossoms [C] still bloom on [G] each tree, _ _ _
[F] When leaves are still green in [C] December, _ _ _
[G] It's then that your love [Am] will be free.
_ [D] _ _ [Am]
[F] I wander her hills [C] and valleys,
_ And _
[F] _ still through my sorrow [G] I see _ _
[F] A land that has never [C] won. _ _ _ _ _
[G] Only her rivers [Am] run free. _ _ _
[F] I drink [G] to the death [C] of her manhood,
_ _ _ [Em]
[F] Those men [C] who would rather [G] have died.
Than _ [F] to live in the cold [C] chains of bondage, _ _ _
[G] To bring back their rights where [B] denied.
[Am] _ _ _ _ _
[F] Where are you now, [C] and we need you? _ _
[F] What burns where the flame [G] used to be? _ _
[F] Are you gone like the snows [C] of last winter? _ _ _
[G] Will only our rivers [Am] run free? _ _ _
[F] How sweet [G] is life, but we're [C] crying. _ _ _
[F] How mellow [C] the wine [G] that we're dry.
_ How _
[F] _ fragrant the _ [Dm]
[C] rose, but it's dying. _ _ _
[G] How gentle, _ _ [Am] but it sighs. _ _ _
[F] What good is in youth [C] when it's edging? _ _ _
[F] What joy is in eyes [Em] that can see? _
[F] When there's sorrow in sunshine [C] and flowers, _ _
[G] And only our _ [D] rivers run [Am] free. _ _ _