Chords for Paddy's Lamentation - Mary Black De Dannan

[G] _ _ _ This song is an immigration song written about a man who decides to head off to America in search of a better life
and finds that when he gets there things are hot but they're [C] not quite so hot as he [Gm] expected.
It's a song called Paddy's [G] Lamentation.
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ Well it's by the Hush Me Boys I'm sure that's to hold your noise
and listen to poor Paddy's _ _ _ _ lamentation.
I was by hunger pressed and [Bb] in poverty distressed
so I [C] took a thought I'd leave the Irish nation.
_ _ Here's you boy, _ _ take my [Bb] place to [C] America and have _ _ _ _ _ fun.
There is nothing here but war [Eb] where the [Bb] marlin can roar
and I [C] wish I was at home in dear old Dublin. _
Well I sold me horse and cow, [Bb] my little pig and sow,
[C] my little plot of land _ _ I'd do it and me [Cm] sweetheart bid me gee.
[Bb] I'm afraid I'll never see [C] for I left her there that morning from [Gm] the market.
[C] _ _ Here's you boy, _ take my [Bb] advice [C] to America and have _ fun.
[Eb] There is nothing [Bb] here but [Eb] war where [Bb] the [Gm] marlin can roar
[C] and I wish I was at home in dear old Dublin.
_ [Cm] Well me self and a hundred [C] more to [Bb] America's sailor
[C] are fortunes to be made we were thinking [Cm] when we got to Yankee land
[C] the shovel gone into [Bb] our hands [C] saying Paddy you must go and fight for [Gm] Lincoln.
[C] _ _
Here's you boy, [Cm] take my [Bb] advice to [C] America and have _ _ fun.
There [Eb] is [Bb] nothing [Eb] here but war [Bb] where the marlin [Gm] can roar
[C] and I wish I was at home in dear old [Bb] Dublin.
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[Cm] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ [C]
General Marr to us he said you [Bb] get shot to lose your head
a [C] remarried soul of yours will get _ shot.
Well [Eb] me self [Bb] I lost [Eb] me leg they [Gm] gave me a wooden peg
and [C] be gone this is the truth to you I [Gm] mention.
[C] _
_ [Cm] Here's you boy, take [Bb] my advice [C] to America and have _ _ _ fun.
There [Eb] is [Bb] nothing here [Eb] but war [Gm] where the marlin can roar
[C] and I wish I was at home in dear old [Gm] Dublin.
[Cm] _
Well I [C] take me self in love [Bb] I get fed on Indian [C] buff
though Ireland is the country I'd _ imagine [Eb] with [Bb] never [Eb] lie to say
[Gm] it's cos Mary Kay [C] for I think I've had enough of your heart [Gm] biting.
[Cm] _
_ Here's you boy, _ _ [Bb] _
[C] take my advice to America and have fun. _ _ _
[Eb] There is [Bb] nothing [Eb] here but war [Gm] where the marlin can roar
[C] and I wish I was at [Gm] home [C] in dear old Dublin.
[Gm] _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _