C G F Am Farewell to the groves of shillelagh and shamrock C Dm F Am Farewell to the wee girls of Ireland all 'round C G F Am May your hearts be as merry as ever I would wish them C Dm F Am When far, far away across the ocean I'm bound [Verse 2] F Dm G Am Oh, my father is old, and my mother is quite feeble F Dm G Am G To leave their own country, it grieves their heart sore__ F Dm F Am Oh, the tears in great drops, down their cheeks they are rolling F Dm G Am F G To think they must die upon some foreign shore [Verse 3] C Dm F Am But what matters to me where my bones may be buried C G F Am If in peace and contentment I can spend my life C G F Am Oh, the green fields of Canada, they daily are blooming C Dm F Am And it's there I'll put an end to my miseries and strife [Verse 4] F Dm G Am So pack up your sea-stores and tarry no longer F Dm G Am G Ten dollars a week isn't very bad pay__ F Dm F Am With no taxes or tithes to devour up your wages F Dm G Am When you're on the green fields of Canada [Instrumental] Am Em F G F C Am F Em F G F C Am [Verse 5] C G F Am The sheep run unshorn, and the land's gone to rushes C Dm F Am The handyman is gone, and the winders of creels C G F Am Away across the ocean go journeyman tailors C Dm F Am And fiddlers that play out the old mountain reels [Verse 6] F Dm G Am Farewell to the dances in homes now deserted F Dm G Am G When tips struck the lightening in sparks from the floor F Dm F Am The paving and crigging of hobnails on flagstones F Dm G Am F Am F The tears of the old folk and shouts of encore [Verse 7] C G F Am For the landlords and bailiffs in vile combination C Dm F Am Have forced us from hearthstone and homestead away C G F Am May the crowbar brigade all be doomed to damnation C Dm F Am When we're on the green fields of Canada [Verse 8] F Dm G Am And it's now to conclude and to finish my story F Dm G Am G And if e'er friendless Irishmen chance my way__ F Dm F Am With the best in the house, I will treat him and welcome F Dm G Am F Am F At home in the green fields of Canada
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