Chords for Tinkerman's Daughter

_ [Eb] The _ _ _ [C] _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ [F] _ _ small birds were lining [Bb] the bleak [F] autumn mansion, [F] _ _ _ [C] preparing [G] to fly [C] to a far sunny shore. _ _
[F] When the tinkers made camp at the bend on the river, _ _ coming back from the [Bb] horse fair
[C] at Balinas. _ _ _
Now the harvest [Fm] being over, [Eb] the farmer [F] went walking, _ [Eb] _ all along the [Fm] _ fair that
[C] borders [Bb] his land.
[F] _ And it was there he first [Bb] saw her, [F] twixt firelight [C] and water, _ _ [Bb] the tinkerman's
[F] daughter.
_ [C] _
_ [Fm] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] Next morning he rose [Bb] from a night [F] without slumber. _
He went straight [Bb] to the father
and [C] he made his case known.
_ And [F] at a pub in Listow, [Bb] they struck [F] out a bargain _ for [F] the tinker [Bb] and
[C] the daughter [F] a home.
[Bb] _ _ _
Where the [Fm] trees cast their shadows [Eb] along the [Fm] fair river, [Cm] _ the [Fm] tinker and the
farmer [C] _ inspected the [Bb] lot. _
[F] _ And a wild _ [Bb] _ _
price [C] they agreed on _ [Bb] for the tinkerman's [F] daughter, [C] the red
[F]-headed.
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [F] _
_ [Eb] _ _ [F] Now the wedding [Eb] was soon over, [F] the tinkers departed.
_ They were eager [Bb] to travel [C] on the south
down the [F] road.
_ [C] _ [F] But the crunch [Eb] of the iron [Bb] shut wheels on [F] the gravel _ [Gm] _
[F] was as bitter to [Bb] her as the way [G] she'd been
on the south.
_ [F] _ But she tried [Fm] hard to please him, [Eb] she did all [Fm] his bidding.
[Cm] _
[F] She slept in [Fm] his bed and [C] she worked on
his [Bb] land.
[F] _ _ But the walls [Bb] of that _ [F] press tighter [C] and tighter _ _ from the [Bb] tinkerman's [F] daughter, [C] the red [F]-headed. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
[Fm] Now so white [Eb] as the
hands of a [Fm] priest or a hangman, [F] _ _ [F] spread [Gm] its blanket [C] the next Christmas round.
[G] _ _ [Fm] _ And the tinkerman's daughter [F] got out from the
bedside, [Gm] _
[F] turned her back [Bb] to the land and [C] her face to the [Bb] town.
_ [F] _ And it's [Fm] said someone saw her [Eb] at dusk that [Fm] same evening.
[F] _
[Fm] She was making her
way [C] down by Limecrumple.
[Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ And that was [Bb] the [F] love the settle foe saw [C] her, _ _ [Bb] the _ [F] tinkerman's daughter, [C] the red [F]-headed.
_ _ [Eb] _
_ _ [Fm] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ _
_ [C] Where the [F] North Kerry hills
caught the fail at Lestowe. _ _
And a farm on its [Bb] banks lives a bitter old man.
_ _ [F] And he swears [Eb] by the shotgun [Bb] he keeps [F] at his bedside [C]
that [F] he'll kill [Bb] anything [C] that
camps [F] on his [C] land.
_ [F] _ And yet [Fm] when he hears iron [Eb] shot wheels crunch [Fm] on gravel, [Eb] _ _ [Fm] or a horse in the shafts [C] of a bright [F] caravan, [Bb] _ _ [F] _
_ his days work
[Bb] to mend it, [F]
his nights sleep _ [C] demented _ by [Bb] the _ [F] tinkerman's daughter, _ [C] the red [F]-headed. _ _ _ _ _
[Fm] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [F] _
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