Chords for Sean Dunphy - Valley Of Knockanure

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_ _ _ You may sing and speak about Easter [C] _ week [F] and the heroes [Gm] of _ _ [Dm] _
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_ _ Of the Fenian men [F] who _ roamed the glen [C]
in victory _ or [A] defeat _ _ _
[Dm] Their names on _ [F] history's pages are told, [C] their _ memories will [A] endure
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Not a song was sung of our [C] darling ones [Fm] in the valley [Gm] of _ _
[Dm] _ Nacannure _ _
There was _ Walsh and Lyons and the [C] Dalton _ boys, though young _ [Gm] and in [Dm] their prime _ _
They _ rambled to [F] a lonely spot [C] where the _ black and tans [A] did _ _ hide
[Dm] The Republic _ bold, [F] they did _ uphold, [C] though _ _ outlawed on [A] the _ moor
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And side by side they fought [C] and died [F] in the valley [Gm] of _ _
[Dm] _ Nacannure
_ It was on a neighboring _ _ _ [C] hillside [F] we [G] listened with _ [Dm] candor's may _ _ _
In every house, [F] in every town, [C] a _ maiden knelt [A] to pray _ _
[Dm] They're closing in _
[F] around them now [C] with _ rifle fire so [A] _ sure _
And [Ab] Lyons is dead [F] and the _ Dalton's down in the valley [Eb] of _
[D] _ Nacannure _ _
They [Dm] _ tugged them then beside [C] the fence [F] to where [Gm] the firs [Dm] did _ bloom _
Like _ brothers so, [F] they faced the foe [C] to meet their _ [A] dreadful _ doom _
[Dm] When _ Dalton spoke, [F] his voice it broke [C] with passion _ proud [A] and _ pure _
[Dm] For land we died as we faced [C] the sky [F] in the valley [Gm] of _ _
[Dm] _ _ Nacannure _
The _ summer sun is _ [C] setting now [F] _ behind [Gm] the _
[Dm] _ Thelanee _ _
The _ pale, pale _ [F] moon is _ [C] _ rising far out _ beyond [A] Tralee _ _ _
[Dm] The _ dismal stars [F] and _ clouds afar [C] are _ darkening all [A] the _ moor
And [Dm] the band she cried when our _ [C] heroes died _ _ [G] _ in [F] the valley _ [Gm] of
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[Dm] _ Nacannure _ _ _
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