The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Key of Em · Chords: III VI i v

Verse 1

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I sat within the valley green sat there with my true love
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And my fond heart strove to choose between the old love and the new love

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The old for her the new that made me think on Ireland dearly
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While soft the wind blew down the glade and shook the golden barley

Verse 2

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Twas hard for mournful words to frame to break the ties that bound us
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Ah but harder still to bear the shame of foreign chains around us

Verse 7

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And so I said the mountain glen I'll seek at morning early
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And join the brave united men while soft winds shook the barley

Verse 3

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Twas sad I kissed away her tears her arms around me clinging
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When to my ears that fateful shot came out the wild wood ringing

Verse 8

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The bullet pierced my true love's breast in life's young spring so early
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And there upon my breast she died while soft winds shook the barley

Verse 4

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I bore her to some mountain stream and many's the summer blossom
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I placed with branches soft and green about her gore-stained bosom

Verse 9

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I wept and kissed her clay-cold corpse then rushed o'er vale and valley
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My vengeance on the foe to wreak while soft winds shook the barley

Verse 5

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And it's blood for blood without remorse I've took in Oulart Hollow
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While to her grave my love's cold corpse where I full soon may follow

Verse 10

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Around her grave I wander drear noon night and morning early
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With breaking heart whene'er I hear the wind that shakes the barley