Chords for Sinead O'Connor - Skibbereen

[F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ Oh, _ Father _ dear, I oft times hear you talk of Erin's eyes.
_ Her lofty scenes and valleys green, her mountains rude and wild.
They say a _ _ pretty place wherein a prince [G#] [F#m] might _ [G#] dwell.
Oh, [C#] why [F#] did you _ abandon it?
The reason to me tells.
[D] _ [F#] _
_ _ _ [D] Oh, [F#m] 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 [Bm] why I left old [F#] Skip _ _ [D] _ [F#] Reef.
[C#] _ [D] _
[F#m] Oh, it's [B] well I do [D] _ _
remember [Bm] that bleak [G#] _ [F#m] December _ [D] day.
[F#m] The landlord and the sheriff [C#m] came [A] to drive us all [F#m] away.
_ [C#m] [C#] They [F#m] set one _ _ fire [A] with [C#m] their demon [F#m] yellow spleen.
[C#m] _
And [F#] that's another reason [F#m] why I left old Skip Reef.
[D] _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [D] [F#m] Your mother too, God rest [A] her soul, [Bm] fell on the [F#m] snowy ground.
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[F#m] She _ fainted _ _ _ [G#m]
[F#m] anguish seeing the _ desolation round.
[G#] She [D] [G] never ever [F#m] _
passed away from a life to mortal dream.
[G#m] _ [D] She found a quiet grave [F#m] _ _ _ in dear old Skip Reef.
_ _ [N] _ 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 [B] _ name.
I [Bm] wrapped you in [G] my coat, a moor in the dead of night unseen.
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I heaved a sigh and said _ goodbye _ _ _ _ _ to dear old Skip _ _ [F#] Reef.
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