Christy Moore – Green Island chords

[Verse 1]

    F      C           Am            FThe island lies like a leaf upon the sea
      F      C               Am              FGreen island like a leaf new fallen from the tree
G              AmGreen turns to gold
   Dm              C                GAs morning breezes gently shake the barley
Em          G      AmBending the yellow corn
G              AmGreen turns to gold,
        Dm             C              GThere´s purple shadows on the distant mountains
        Em         G      AmAnd the sun in the yellow corn


[Verse 2]

     F             C              Am               FThey came in their longships from lands beyond the sea
     F             C               Am               FThey came in their longships, they saw the land was green
G           AmWind in the barley,
Dm               C              GTrout and salmon leaping in the rivers
Em         G      AmSun in the yellow corn
G        AmLeaping a shore
     Dm                    C               GThey slaughtered those who laboured in the barley
Em            G         AmScything them down like corn


[Verse 3]

    F         C               Am           FThe longships sailed away and new invaders came
     F            C              Am                 FWith long bow and lance bringing death in England´s name
     G              AmWith sword and with mace
          Dm                  C         GThey went reaping through the fields of barley
     Em            G      AmThey plundered the yellow corn
G             AmCrop followed crop
    Dm               C                 GAnd prospered in the killing fields of barley
       Em         G         AmIn the harvest of new young corn


[Verse 4]

F        C                  Am              FMarching down the years the men of war they came
     F       C                  Am          FWith bombs, assassin´s bullets, c.s gas and guns
G               AmGhosts from the past
    Dm              C                     GAre chasing shadows through the fields of barley
Em            G      AmHiding in the yellow corn
G            AmNine hundred years
        Dm                C                    GThey´ve tried to trap the wind that shakes the barley
        Em         G      AmAnd the sun in the yellow corn


[Verse 5]

    F      C           Am            FThe island lies like a leaf upon the sea
      F      C               Am              FGreen island like a leaf new fallen from the tree
G              AmGreen turns to gold
   Dm              C                GAs morning breezes gently shake the barley
Em          G      AmBending the yellow corn
G           AmNo force on earth
    Dm            C                    GCan ever trap the wind that shakes the barley
       Em         G      AmOr the sun in the yellow corn