Chords for Four Green Fields - The Dubliners & Jim McCann | Festival Folk (1985)

_ _ _ Each of the four provinces [G] in Ireland is represented by a green field.
The song was written by Tommy Maycombe.
It's called Four Green Fields.
Look at this. _ _
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What _ [D] did [G] I have, _ [C] said the fine _ _ [G] old woman?
_ _ _ _ _ [D] What did [G] I have, _ _ this [Bm] proud [A] old woman [D] did say?
_ [G] I had four [D] green [Em] _ _ fields.
[G] _ _ Each [C] one _ [D] was a jewel.
_ [G] But _ [D] strangers _
[Em] _ came and [G] [C] tried [A] to take them [D] from me.
[G] But my [D] fine strong _ [Em] sons, _
_ [G] they fought [C] to [D] save my jewels.
_ [C] They fought [G] and they died.
[Em] _ _ [G] And that was [D] my grief, [G] said she. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Long _ [D] time [G] ago, _ _ [C] said the fine old [G] woman. _
_ _ _ Long [D] _ [G] time ago, _ _ [C] this proud [A] old woman [D] did say.
_ _ [G] There was [D] war [Em] and death, _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ [C] plundering _ [D]
and pillage.
[G] My _ [D] children _ [Em] _ _ starved [G] _ [C] by mountain, [E] valley [D] and stream. _
[G] And their _ [D] wailing _ [Em] _
cries, _ [G] they _ [C] reached the fair.
[D] _ _ _ _ [C] And my four green [G] _ fields [Em] _
[G] ran red [D] with their blood, [G] said she.
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What _ [D] have [G] I now, _ said [C] the fine _ old [G] woman.
_ _ _ _ What _
[D] have [G] I now, _ _ [C] this proud [Am] old woman [D] did say?
You sing it with me.
[G] I have [D] four _ [Em] green fields.
_ [G] _ _ One [C] of _ [D] them's in _ bondage [G] in _ [D] _ strangers' [Em] _ _ _
_ hands.
[C] They tried [Am] to take it [D] from me.
And [G] my _ [D] sons _ [Em] have sons [G] _
as [C] brave as were [A] their [D]
fathers.
_ [C] My four green [G] fields [Em] _ _ [G] will bloom [D] once again, [G] said she.
_ My [C] _ four _ [G] green _ _
[Em] _ _ _ [G] fields will bloom [D] once again, _ [C] said she. _ _ _
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