Chords for Tommy Makem - Gentle Annie

Thank you, thank you very much.
We hope we're delighted to be here and we're
delighted that you're here as well and all of you people looking in.
We have a
great show for you tonight.
We have _ Cherish the Ladies who are a wonderful
wonderful group and we have Barley Bree who are known the length and breadth of
North America and in Europe as well.
Wonderful songs, Poetry Ireland of course
has a _ great great heritage that we have to celebrate and we have all kinds of
songs and music and poetry.
_ _ The poetry and songs go very much hand in hand.
_ They always have and I suppose they always will.
They sort of nurture each
other.
_ A man called Patrick Kavanagh _ _ _ left the stony fields of Monaghan and he went
off to Dublin as a young man to seek fame and fortune as a poet and he went
out one day in a lovely sunny autumn afternoon.
He went out for a walk on one
of those big tree-lined avenues on the south side of the city of Dublin and he
saw a beautiful girl walking along the far side of the road _ and Kavanagh was, he
fell madly in love with her they say.
They also say that he stayed in love
with her for most of his life.
He wrote a wonderful poem for her and to her and at
her and about her. _
_ The poem has been used very widely as a song these days but I
sort of remember it fondly as Kavanagh had written it for the girl.
He said, _ _
On Raglan Road of an autumn day I saw her first and knew that her dark hair
would weave a snare that I might one day rue.
I saw the danger yet I walked along
the enchanted way and I said let grief be a fallen leaf at the dawning of the
day.
_ On Grafton Street in November I tripped lightly along the ledge of the
deep ravine where can be seen the worth of passions pledge.
The Queen of Hearts
still baking tarts and I not making hay.
_ I love too much and by such, by such is
happiness thrown away. _
I gave her gifts of the mind.
_ I gave her the secret sign
that's known to the true gods of wood and stone and word and tint.
I did not
stint I gave her poems to say with her own name there and her own dark hair
like cloud over fields in May.
_ _ A quiet street where all ghosts meet.
I see her
walking now away from me so hurriedly that reason must allow that I had loved
not as I should a creature made of clay.
_ If an angel wooed the clay he'd lose his
wings [F] at the dawn of day.
_ Fair and lovely Annie, _ [Bb] your gentle [C] _ [F] ways have won me.
_ You
bring [Am] peace and [Dm] joy and laughter _ _ [Gm] everywhere.
[Bb] _ _ [C] _
_ _ [F] Where you go [Am] the [Dm] sunshine
_ follows.
[Am] Your breath of spring in winter _ [F] and my heart and [Gm] soul are [C] always in your
[F] [Bbm] care.
If [F] you know it you could help me to sing it.
_ Gentle Annie, _ [Am] _ [Dm] _
_ _ [Am] gentle Annie _ _ _ _ [F] and my heart and [C] soul are always [Am] in your care.
[F] _ _
_ _ When you touch me with your fingers [Bb] my cares [F] and worries vanish _ like the
[Am] morning dew [Dm]
before the [Gm] rising _ sun.
[C] _
_ _ [F] When your eyes tell [Dm] me you love me [Am] then my
soul is filled with wonder _ [F] and my love for you will [C] live when [F] life is _ [Bb] [C] done.
[F] _
_ _ Gentle Annie, [Am] _ [Dm] _
_ _ [Am] gentle Annie _ _ _ _ [F] and my love for you [C] will live when [F] life is done. _
_ _ You're the flower among the flowers.
[Bb] You're the bird song [Gm] in [F]
the morning.
_ You're the
laughter of [Dm] the children [Gm] at their play.
[E] _ [C] _
_ _ [F] You're my hope and joy [Dm] and wisdom.
_ [Am] You're my
reason just for living.
_ [F] You're my treasure.
[Dm] You're [Gm] my very [C] night [F] and _ _ _ day.
_ Gentle Annie, _ _ [Dm] _
_ gentle [Am] Annie. _ _ _
_ _ [F] You're my treasure.
_ [C] You're my very night [F] and day. _ _
_ _ When the mountains _ all come tumbling _ [Bb] and the earth has [F] stopped its turning.
_ When
the winds don't blow [Dm] and stars refuse [Gm] to [Bb] shine.
_ [C] _
_ _ [F] When the moon has [Dm] left the heaven
and [Am] the seven seas are empty.
I [F] will still have gentle [Gm]
Annie [C] on [F] my _ _ mind.
_ Gentle _ Annie, _ [Dm] _
_ _ [Am] gentle Annie. _ _
_ _ [F] I will still have [C] gentle Annie on [F] my _ mind. _
_ _ Gentle Annie, _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ [Am] gentle Annie. _
_ _ [Gm] I [F] will still have gentle [D] [G] Annie [C] on my [F] _ _
[D] _ mind. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _