Colleen Malone

Larry Sparks

Written by Leroy Maxey Drumm and Johnny Goble

Key of C · Chords: I IV V

Verse 1

C                       F             C
It’s been ten years and three since I first went to sea
      F               C           G7
And I sailed from old Ireland and home
          C              F            C
And those hills lush and green were a part of my dreams
       F             G7        C
When I dreamed of my Colleen Malone

Verse 2

             F              C
On the day I returned to my sorrow I learned
         F          C          G7
That the angels had called her away
     C          F        C
To a grave on a hill overlooking the mill
           F           G7             C
That’s the place where she’s sleeping today

Verse 3

       G7                            F        C
As the soft breezes blow through the meadow I go
         F             C            G7
Past the mill with the moss covered stone
                                   F             C
Up the pathway I climb through the woods and the pines
   F          G7        C
To be with my Colleen Malone

Verse 4

                      F        C
She was faithful each day as I sailed far away
          F          C           G7
There was no one but me that she loved
  C              F             C
I remember those eyes soft and blue as the skies
        F            G7        C
And her heart was as pure as a dove

Verse 5

                   F           C
For the rest of my life I will not take a wife
       F            C      G7
I will live in this valley alone
         C       F              C
Planting flowers around in this soft gentle ground
        F          G7        C
That is holding my Colleen Malone

Verse 3

       G7                            F        C
As the soft breezes blow through the meadow I go
         F             C            G7
Past the mill with the moss covered stone
                                   F             C
Up the pathway I climb through the woods and the pines
   F          G7        C
To be with my Colleen Malone