Chords for Old Fenian Gun - Declan Hunt | Irish Rebel Music

_ _ It hung above _ the [B] kitchen _ fire, its [E] barrel _
_ [A] _ long [E] and brown
_ _ And one _ day with a _ boy's desire [B] I climbed and _ took it _ down
_ [E] My _ father's eyes with _ anger _ [B] flashed, he cried, what have [A] you done?
_ _ _ I wish you'd _ [B] left it where it was, [E] that's my [A] old _ [E] Fenian gun
_ _ _ I _ fumbled _ [B] it with love and pride [E] and _ [A] looked it o [E]'er and o _ _ 'er
I _ placed it on my _ shoulder and [A] I [B] _
marched across _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] My _ father's _ anguish _ softened and he [B] _
shed my _ [A] boy's tongue
_ _ _ Ah well, he _ said, [B] tis in your breed [E] like that old [A] _ Fenian [E] gun
_ _ I _ remember _ sixty [B] _
-seven well, [E] when lads like you and _ me
_ All thought we'd strike _ _ another blow to [B] _
set old Ireland free
_ _ But [E] _
broken were our golden hopes, I [B] was long months on [A] the run
_ _ But it did good work [B] for Ireland then, [E] that brown [A] old _ [E] Fenian gun
I was down then in [B] _ _
Kilmalloch, was [E] the hottest _ [A] _ fight [E] of _ all _ _ _
And you see, he bared his arm, [B] there's the mark still of the ball
_ _ I [E] hope the young lads growing now [B] will hold the ground [A] we won
_ _ And not disgrace _ [Abm] the [B] cause in which I [E] _
held that _ Fenian gun
_ _ _ I placed it on [B] my shoulder _ and [E] I heard [A] my father [E] _
sigh
_ _ I knew his thoughts were _ turning back [B] on days now long gone _ by
_ [E] And then I _ vowed within my heart [B] I'll be my _ _ [A] father's son
_ _ And if _ ever _ [B] Ireland wants my aid, [E] I'll hold [A] the _ [E] Fenian gun
_ _ _ That's years ago _ [B] I've grown a man [E] and I've _ [A] weathered many [E] a _ _ gale
The last long year I've spent _ inside a gloomy _ English _ jail
_ _ I've done my part, I'll do it still until _ the fight [A] is won
_ _ When _ _ Ireland's breeze she'll [B] _ blast the man who held [A] the _ Fenian [E] gun _ _
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