Chords for Clear the Way - John Doyle

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[A] _ [E] _ _ _ In the cold, [Em] grey light of morning, _ [D] [A] after the deal [E] I'd gone, _ _ I awoke and shook all [Am] over,
_ hoping a [Bm] dram would [E] bring me round.
When I stared at the sight all around me, [D] dusted blue [A] and [Bm] faded grey,
[E] _ men [D] in heaps were [E] scattered, _ men who fought and [Bm] died the [E] other day.
While I left my youth [G] in Connemara, [Em] _ _ [D] _
[A] roving from [Bm] town to town,
I [E] shipped on [D] board [E] of the Amelia, _ [D] to [A] the [Bm] [E] Iowans' _ [A] land.
[Bm] We were not for [A] honour, nor [Em] for country, [D] we killed for [A] three square [Bm] meals a day.
Off [E] the boat [D] and pack on [E] shoulder, _ gunning and we're here to stay.
[B] A friend explored, we [E] rose to meet them, [A] though we knew [E] the [B] price we'd pay.
[E] [D] But the [A] Irish Brigade will [E] not surrender, _ _ [F#] _ _
[A] Bougainvillea [E] cleared away. _ _ _ _
_ General _ Mark, he gave the order, off [D] Mary's [A] height, [Bm] charged away.
The [E] hills were [G] rife with blood [E] and murder, _ [D] as we [A] gouged and [Bm] tore [E] our way.
[C#m] Men and rebels [D] they [E] fired upon us, [D] shot and [A] shelled, [Bm] book and ball.
[A] Their [E] green [D] flag rose [E] high above them, [D] as ours [A] fell on the [E] buckle wall.
A [B] friend explored, [A] _ [G#m] we rose to meet them, [A] though we knew the [E] [B] price we'd pay.
[D] But the [A] Irish Brigade will [E] not surrender, _ [D] _ _ [A] Bougainvillea [E] cleared away.
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_ _ _ _ Well, hand to hand and face to face there, a young rebel he charged me in the fray.
I turned around [Bm] and my [E] blade went through him, [D] I did the [E] devil's [A] work [E] that day.
[C#m] For I saw my [D] face [E] there before him, in [A] the boy that I [Bm] knew.
_ [E] He could have been [D] a friend [E] or a brother, _ [D] another exile [Bm] from [E] the way.
Three _ _ _ thousand strong rose to [A] fight them, in Antietam's [Bm] ripening corn.
But [E] Fredericksburg was our undoing, three hundred [D] left to [Bm] leave and [E]
[A] mourn.
And [B] _ [A] Fredericksburg, [G#m] we rose to meet them, [A] though we knew [G#m] the price [B] we'd pay.
[D] But the [A] Irish Brigade will [E] not surrender, _ _ [D] _ [A] Bougainvillea cleared [E] away.
_ [B] And _ [A] Fredericksburg, [G#m] we rose to meet them, [A] though we knew [E] the price [B] we'd pay.
[D] But the [A] Irish Brigade will not [E] surrender, _ _ [D] _ [A] Bougainvillea [E] cleared away.
_ _ [D] _ [A] Bougainvillea cleared away.
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