Dion Boucicault – The Wearing Of The Green chords

#-------------------------------PLEASE NOTE-------------------------------------#
# This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the #
# song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. #
#------------------------------------------------------------------#
The Wearing Of The Green chords
Anonymous Ballad 1798 / lyrics by Dion Boucicault

  D                               AO Paddy dear, and did ye hear the news that's goin' round?
    G                     D      A             DThe shamrock is by law forbid to grow on Irish ground!
                                            ANo more Saint Patrick's Day we'll keep, his color can't be seen,
    G               D             A              Dfor there's a cruel law ag'in the Wearin' o' the Green."

  D                             AI met with Napper Tandy, and he took me by the hand,
       G                     D            A            Dand he said, "How's poor old Ireland, and how does she stand?"
                                         A"She's the most distressful country that ever yet was seen,
            G               D                   A              Dfor they're hanging men and women there for the Wearin' o' the Green."

    D                            A"So if the color we must wear be England's cruel red,
G                D                 A             Dlet it remind us of the blood that Irishmen have shed
                                         AAnd pull the shamrock from your hat, and throw it on the sod,
    G                  D                       A              Dbut never fear, 'twill take root there, though underfoot 'tis trod.

     D                                      AWhen laws can stop the blades of grass from growin' as they grow,
    G                  D                 A              Dand when the leaves in summer-time their color dare not show
                                   AThen I will change the color too I wear in my caubeen,
    G                     D                      A              Dbut till that day, please God, I'll stick to the Wearin' o' the Green.


Set8

http://sites.google.com/site/guitarmusicchordsandlyrics/