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