Chords for Sinéad O'Connor - Skibbereen (with The Chieftains) from Long Journey Home

[F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ Oh, _ _ Father _ dear, I oft times hear you talk of _ _ Erin's eyes _ _
Her _ lofty seams and valleys _ green, her _ mountains rude and _ wild
They say it is a pretty place _ wherein a prince [G#] [F#m] might _ _ [G#] dwell
Oh, [C#] why did [F#] you _ abandon _ it?
The reason to me, tell
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_ _ _ [D] _ [F#m] Oh, son, I loved my _ native land with _ energy _ and _ pride
Till a blight came, all _ _ [C#m] my crops, my [F#m] sheep and cattle _ died
[D] The rent [F#m] and taxes were so [C#m] high [F#m] I could not dare _ redeem _ _ _
And that's the cruel _ reason why [Bm] I left, oh, _ [F#] _ _
[D] Skipperine
_ [F#] _ _ [C#] _ [D] Oh, [F#m] it's well I do _ _ _ remember [Bm] that bleak _ [F#m] December _ day
[D] _ [F#m] The [F#] landlord and [F#m] the sheriff [C#m] _
came [A] to drive us all [F#m] away
_ _ [C#m] They [C#] [F#] set fire _ [C#m] _ _ [A] _ _ with [C#m] their demon [F#m] yellow _ spleen
[C#] _ _ And [F#] that's another reason _ why I [F#m] left, oh, _ _ _ Skipperine
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[F#m] _ _ _ _ [D] [E] Your [F#m] mother, too, God rest [F#] her soul, [Bm] fell on the [F#m] snowy ground _
_ She _ fainted, _ _
_ _ [G#] [C#m] anguished, [F#m] seen the _ _ _ desolation [G#] round _
[D] She never wrote [F#m] but passed away from life to mortal dream
[C#] _ She [D] _ found a quiet [F#m] grave, my _ boy, in dear old _ _ _ _ _
_ [N] Skipperine
And you were only two years old and feeble was your frame _
I could not leave you with your friends, you bore your _ father's _ name
I wrapped you in my coat, a moor in the dead of night unseen _ _ _ _ _
I heaved a [G] sigh and said _ goodbye _ _ _ _ _ _ _ to dear _ old _ _ _ [Em] [F#] Skipperine _
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