The Streets Of Derry
Cara Dillon
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INTRO:
G D G C D G D C D
VERSE 1:
N.C. D G C D
After the morning, there comes an evening
C G C D C
And after the evening, another day
N.C. D C G D G
And after a false love, there comes a true love
C G C D
I'd have you listen now to what I sayVERSE 2:
G D G C D "I swear my love is the finest young man C G C D C As fair as any the sun shines on D C G D G But how to save him, I do not know it C G C D For he has got a sentence to be hung"
VERSE 3:
N.C. D G C D As he was marching the streets of Derry C G C D C I own, he marched up, right manfully D C G D G Being much more like a commanding officer C G C D Than a man to die upon the gallows tree
VERSE 4:
N.C. D G C D
"What keeps my love, she's so long in coming
C G C D C
Oh, what detains her, so long from me
D Am C D G
Or does she think it a shame or scandal
C G C D
To see me die upon the gallows tree"VERSE 5:
N.C. D G C D
He looked around and he saw her coming
C G C D C
And she was dressed all in woollen fine
D C G D G
The weary steed that my love was riding
C G C D
It flew more swiftly than the windINSTRUMENTAL:
D G C D G D Am C D (2x)
VERSE 6:
N.C. D G C D
"Come down, come down from that cruel gallows
C G C D C
I've got your pardon from the king
D C G D G
And I'll let them see that they dare not hang you
C G C D
And I'll crown my love with a bunch of green"
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