The Bantry Girls Lament Chords by Tommy Fleming

[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
No plough the fields now, _ or _ whose soil the corn,
_ _ _ _ And who _ mine the flock now, _ _ and keep the needy shorn.
_ _ The stock that's in the haggard, _ _ _ unthrashed it may lay, _ _
_ Since Johnny _ went a _ -thrashin' _ the _ dirty King of Spain. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ Oh, the girls from the Bono _ [C] [G] in sorrow _ may [D] retire,
_ [Gm] And the piper and his bellows go _ home and glow in the fire, _
Since Johnny, _ [C] lovely Johnny, [G] _ is _ sailin' o [D]'er the mare,
_ _ [G] Along with other _ [Cm] patriots [G] to fight [D] the King [G] of Spain. _ _ _ _ _
_ And the boys will sorely miss him _ [Am] [G] when Money Ne'er [D]
Comes Round,
And [G] they'll find that their old captain [C] _ [G] he's nowhere [D]
to [G] be found,
_ _ And peelers [C] must and idle [G] _ are against their will and [D] grain,
_ [G] Since the gallant boy who gave them work now he's the King of Spain. _
Oh, _ who'll plough the fields now, or _ whose soil [D] the corn,
_ [G] And who _ mine the flock now, and keep [D] the [G] needy shorn. _ _ _ _ _
_ If cruel fate will not [C] permit our [G] Johnny to _ [D]
return,
_ _ [G] His heavy loss, the Bantry [C] girls [G] will never _ cease to mourn.
_ We'll resign _ [C] ourselves to our [G] sad loss, and die in grief [D] and pain,
_ _ [G] Since Johnny died for [C] Ireland's pride [Em] in [G] the foreign [D] lands [G] of Spain. _ _
_ _ _ _ Oh, who'll plough the fields now, or whose soil the [D] corn,
_ [G] And who mine the flock now, and keep the needy shorn. _
The stack that's in [C] the haggard, [G] _
_ _ unthrashed it [D] may remain,
_ [G] Since Johnny _ went a-thrashin' [C] the [G] _ [D] dirty King [G] of Spain.
_ The _ stack that's in the haggard, _ _ _ unthrashed it may remain,
_ Since Johnny went a-fightin' to the _ foreign lands of Spain.
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[Gm] _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ [Eb] _