Spancil Hill Chords by The Dubliners

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[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ Last _ night as I [C] lay dreaming _ _ Of _ [G] pleasant _ days [D] gone _ by
Me _ [Dm] mind been bent on _ rambling _ [C] To _ Ireland [G] I did fly
[C] _ I [Dm] _ stepped on [Am] board a vision _ _ [C] And I followed _
_ [G] with the will
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[Dm] Till next I [A] came [C] to anchor At the [G] cross in _ [Dm] Spansol _ Hill _
_ _ _ _ _ It been on the _ [C] twenty-third of June The day [G] _
before the [Dm] fair
_ _ When _ _ Ireland's sons and _ daughters _ [C] And friends _
[G] assembled _ [C] there
_ The [Dm] young, the old, the brave and the bold Came [C] their duty _ to [G] fulfil
_ _ [C] _ At [D] the parish [A] church in [C] _
Clooney _ _ A mile [G] from _ [Dm] Spansol Hill _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ I went to see [C] me neighbours _ _ To [G] see what they [D] might say
_ The _ old ones were all dead and gone [C] The young ones [G] turned grey
_ [C] _ But [Dm] I met the [Am] tailor _ Quigley _ _ [C] He's as bold as [G] ever still
[C] _ _ [Dm] He used to [C] make me britches _ _ When I [G] lived in _ [D] Spansol Hill
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[Dm] I _ _ _ [A] _ _ [C] _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ paid a flying [C] visit _ To my first [G] and only [Dm] love
_ _ She's as white as _ [C] [Dm] any _ _ lily _ [C] _ Gentle _ _
[G] as a dove
[C] _ And she [D] threw her arms [Am] around me _ [C] Saying, Johnny, I [G] love you still
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[Dm] She's now the _ [C] farmer's daughter _ _ And the pride [G]
of _ Spansol [Dm] _ Hill _
_ _ _ _ _ _ I _ dreamt I held [C] and kissed her _ _ As in [G] the days [Dm] of yore _ _ _
Johnny, _ you're only _ _ joking [C] As many as the [G] time before
_ [C] Then [Dm] the cock he crew in the _ _ morning [C] He grew _ both [G] loud and [C] shrill
I _ [Dm] awoke in _ _
[C] _ _ California _ Many [G] miles from _ _ [Dm] Spansol Hill _
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