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