Chords for Shebeen and Friends - Jackets Green

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_ [Bb] _ _ _ [Ab] No love sang me _ haresqueen.
[Eb] Tell town that Glenrose
[Gm] Our [Cm] fields were [Gm] moon
[Bb] And we wore the jackets [Cm] green.
_ [Eb] And Donald sat [Bb] on his gallant crane
[Cm] Like a king on a royal _ seat.
[Eb] And my heart let out on his regal [Cm] way
[Bb] To worship at [Cm] his _ feet.
[Eb] For love had to come [Bb] in those colors dressed
[Cm] And loo to the [Ab] soldiers kneeling
[Eb] And lay my head on his [Gm] throbbing [Cm] breast
[Bb] For the sake of your jacket [Cm] green.
_ [Eb] Well, no hoard of wealth [Bb] did my love own
[Cm] The good sort that [Ab] he wore.
[Gm] But [Eb] I loved him for [Gm] himself [Cm] alone
[Bb] And the colors that [Cm] he wore.
_ [Eb] For had he come [Bb] in England's red
[Ab] To make me England's queen
_ [Eb] I would rove the high green [Gm] hills [Cm] instead
[Bb] For the sake of the [Cm] Irish green.
_ [Gm] [Eb] When _ William's storm [Bb] was shot and shelled
[Ab] At the walls of _ _ [Eb] Garyown
In the breach of deck my [Gm] [Cm] Donal fell
[Bb] And his sleeves kneeled at _ [Cm] Tritty's stone.
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[Gm] [Bb] The man never crossed [Ab] while he swung his broadsword _ [Eb] keen
But I do not weep my [Gm] darling [Cm] lost
[Bb] For he fell in his [Cm] jacket _ _ [Gm] [Eb] green.
And sir, as you sailed [Bb] away I wept
[Ab] As I heard the wild oak.
_ [Eb] I felt and danced as a [Gm] man [Cm] who [Eb] slept
[Bb] In the fields of [Cm] Garyown.
[Eb] But quiet I'll [Bb] tell my Donal blest
[Ab] Though a wild sea-bull be [Eb] tween
Till I would fold him [Gm] to [Cm] my [Bb] breast
On the old Venice Irish [Cm] green.
[Gm] My [Eb] soul has sought like [Bb] a wave the moor
[Ab] That's sadder than stone-breeze
[Eb] For I buried my heart in his [Gm] grave [Cm] below
[Bb] For his and for [Cm] Ireland's sake.
[Eb] And I cry make way [Bb] for the soldier's bride
[Ab] And your house of death, sad queen
[Eb] For I long to rest by my girl [Cm] of [Bb] sight
On the rotten oak [Cm] of green.
_ [Gm] [Eb] And I saw the [Bb]
shannon's purple tide
[Ab] Move by the Irish town
[Eb] As I stood in the breach by young [Gm] [Cm] Donal's side
[Bb] When England's flag [Cm] went down
[Gm] [Eb] And now it lures when [Bb] I see the sky
[Ab] A blood-red curse between.
_ [Eb] I weep but it is not to [Cm] woman's eyes
[Gm] No razor Irish _ green.
Oh Ireland _ says thy lonely soul
And glad beats the winter _ sea
But sadder and higher the wild waves roll
For hearts that pray [C] for [Eb] thee
Yet breech shall come to [Bb] our heartless host
[Ab] But a frozen dust be [Eb] seen
So Irish maids love [Gm] [Cm] Donald [Bb] close
Who wear the [Cm] jacket's green.
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