Chords for The Wolfe Tones, My Green Valleys

[Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ Thank you very much indeed lads and girls.
_ [N] I tell you, _ _ we'd like to quieten down the pace just a little bit this time.
We have a very [G] beautiful song for you _ that tells of the sad years [Ab] that followed the great famine in Ireland.
Well the famine as you know, _ over one million people died [C] in Ireland and one million people [D] emigrated.
And we'd like to _ remember those many [Ab] tens of thousands of Irish people.
_ [G] _ _ _ And _ _ _ _ _ _ we have a very nice song for you that was written by an Irish Canadian. _
_ _ It's a song that sings of the coffin ships.
And the coffin ships was the name given to ships that [C] left Ireland
[Cm] _ and [G] the people that were in them never reached their destination across the Atlantic.
Here's a song, a ballad [D] and Tommy to sing for you, a very quiet [Bm] ballad too, My [G] Green Valleys. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ The _ seagulls [C] are calling [G] and the wind is in [Em] the same _ _
_ And [G] she's _ fast [C] moving over [G] the _ sea _
_ [D] On [G] a ship out [C] for St.
John's [G] three [Bm] thousand miles [Em] _
_ away
_ _ A [G] human cargo _ [C] [Am] might [C] come right _ [G]
and _ _ _ leave
[Gbm] [G] Fare thee _ well, [C] Green _ Valleys, [Bm] God keep you the _ [G] _ [D] same
_ _ [G] If and _ only [C] my mind [G] you'll _ be _
[D] _ _ [G] Far and sailing, _ [C] dark waters [G] too far [B] and [Em] _
barricade
_ _ _ _ [G] Never more, [Bm] my [C] Green _ Valleys, [G] to _ _ see
_ _ As of me, _ [C] far or ages, _ [G] and the winds have died [Em] _ away _ _
_ And [G] our journey [C] will now land [G] or be _ _
_ Though the plague is [C] a shadow [G] that [Bm] lingers night [Em] and _ day
_ _ [G] Far more thoughts of [Am] Green [C] Valleys [G] I _ see
_ _ [D] _ [G] Fare thee _ well, [C] Green _ Valleys, [G] God keep you the [D] _ _ same
_ _ [G] If and _ only [C] my _ mind [G] you'll _ _ _ [D] be
_ [G] Far and sailing, _ [C] dark waters [Em] too far and _ barricade
_ _ _ _ Never more, [G] my [C] Green _ Valleys, [G] to see
_ _ _ _ It hurts me [C] to think of [G] the things [Bm] I've [Em] left _ _ behind
_ _ [G] Though the famine [C] has _ blackened [G] the _ _ land
_ [D] _ [G] And to look now [C] for something [G] that I may [Em] never _ find
_ _ Is [G] a problem _ [C] that's now _ [G] closed at _ _ _ hand
[D] _ [G] Fare thee _ well, [C] Green _ Valleys, [Bm]
God keep you [D] the _ same _
_ _ [G] If and _ only [C] my _ mind [G] you'll _ [D] be
_ _ [G] Far and sailing, _ [C]
dark waters [Em] too _ far and _ barricade
_ _ _ _ [G]
Never more, my [C] Green _ Valleys, [G] to see
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [G]
Never more, my [C] Green _ Valleys, [G] to see _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Thank you, Bob.
Congratulations. _
[D] _ [A] _ We'll have a few jigs this [N] time.