Her Mantle So Green Chords by Sinead O Connor

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[F] As [C] I went [F] out [C] walking [F] one morning [Am] in June _ _ To [F] view the [C] bare fields and [F] the valleys [C] in
bloom _ _ _ I [F] spied a [C] pretty fair maid, she [F] appeared like [C] a queen [G] With [Am] her costly [G] fine [C] robes and
[F] her mantle [Am] so green _ _ _ Says _ [F] _
_ _ [C] I, my [F] pretty [C] fair maid, [F] won't you come with [Am]
me?
_ _ _ [F] We'll both join [C] in wedlock [F] and marry [C] we'll be _ _
I will dress you in [C] fine linen, you'll [F] appear like a [C]
queen _ [G] With [Am] your costly fine [C] robes and your [F]
mantle so [Am] green
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_ [C] Says she, now my young man, you [F] must be _ [A] _
[Am] _ _ excused For [F]
I'll wed [C] with no man, so [F] you must [D] be _ [C] refused _ _ [F] To the green woods I [C] will wander [F] and shun all [C] _ _
_ [G] men's view
For the [Am] boy I love [C] dearly [F] lies in pain with [Am] _ _ warloon _ _ [F] _ _ _ [C] _
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_ _ _ [F] Well [C]
if you're not my mate, [F] say your [Am] lover's _ _ name [F] I fought in [C] my battle so [Dm] I might know the _ [C] _ same
[F] Draw near to [C] my garment and there you will _ see [G] _ His [Am] name is [C] in growing dirt [F] on my mantle [Am] so green _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] In [C] the ribbon of her mantle [F] there I did [Am] _ behold _ _ [F] His name and [C] his surname [F] in letters [C] of gold _ _ [F] Young William [C] O'Reilly [F]
appeared in [C] my view _ _
[G] He [Am] was my chief [C] comrade [F] back in fame with [Am] _
warloon _ [Dm] _ _ [Am] _
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as he lay dying I heard his [Am] last cry _ If [F] you were here lovely [C]
Nancy [F] I'd be willing [C] to die
And _ [F] as I told her [C] this story [F] in anguish [C] she flew _ _
[Bm] And [Am] the more that [C] I told her [Dm] the paler [Am] she grew _ _ [Dm] So [Am] _
_ _ _ [F] _ [C] I smiled on my Nancy t [F]'was I broke [Am] your heart _
_ [F] In your [C] first garden [F] that day we did [C]
part _ _ _ [F] And this is [C] the truth and [F] the truth I [C] _ _ declare
[G] Oh _ _ [Am] here's your love [C] _ token, _
_ _ [F] the gold ring [Am] I wear _
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