Tonart: C# minor
Verse 1
C#m
B#m
C#m
Oh, Father dear,
D#
B
I oft times hear you speak
D#
C#m
of Eden's Isle
E
Our lofty scenes and valleys green,
D#
C#m
our mountains rude and wild
B#m
C#m
E
To say it is a lovely land
D#
G#
G#m
G#
C#m
wherein a prince might dwell
C#
C#m
D#
Oh, why did you abandon it?
E
Bb
B
C#m
The reason to me tell
B#m
C#m
C#
Dbm
B#m
Oh, son, I love my native land
Eb
Cm
Dbm
with energy and pride
Cm
Eb
Till the blight came over all my crops,
Bb
Eb
Dbm
my sheep and cattle died
Cm
Eb
My rent and taxes were too high,
Bb
Eb
Dbm
I could not help them be jean
C#
C#m
And that's the cruel reason
D#
E
B
D#
C#m
why I left old Skipperine
C#
C#m
C#
G#
D#
Oh, well do I remember that
Bb
Cm
C#m
bleak December day
Cm
The landlord and the sheriff
D#
Bb
D#
C#m
Cm
came to drive us all away
D#
They set my roof on fire
Bb
C#m
with their curses tingly -spleen
Cm
C#m
An d that's another reason
D#
Bb
D#
C#m
why I left old Skibbereen
Cm
C#m
Cm
C#m
D#
Your mother too, God rest her soul,
Bb
Cm
C#m
fell on the snowy ground
Cm
D#
She fainted in her anguish,
Bb
B
C#m
see the desolation ground
Cm
D#
She never long passed away,
Bb
from her life to mortal
Cm
C#m
Cm
dream
Db
Dbm
Eb
And found a quiet grave, my five,
Bb
Dbm
in dear old Skipper Ream
Cm
Dbm
B#m
Dbm
Db
Eb
And you were only two years old,
Bb
B
C#m
and Feeble was your friend
Cm
D#
I could not leave you with my friends,
Bb
Cm
C#m
you bore your father's name
Cm
D#
I wrapped you in my coat of mourn
Bb
at the dead of night unseen
Cm
C#m
Cm
C#m
Cm
I leaved a
C#m
D#
sigh an d bade goodbye
Bb
C#m
to dear old Skipper King
Cm
C#m
D#
Oh, Father dear, the day may come
Bb
Cm
C#m
When in answer to the call
Cm
D#
Each Irish man with feelings stern
Bb
Cm
C#m
Cm
Will rally one and all
C#m
Cm
I'll be the man to
Bb
B
C#m
Beneath the flag of green
Bb
B
C#m
Revenge must give all mean
You
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