Artist: | The Dubliners (English) |
User: | Gary Fox |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Default |
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Comment: | - |
Fields of Athenry (Listen to midi)
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1. By a lonely prison wall I heard a young girl ca..llin',
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“Michael they have taken you away !
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For you stole Trevelyn's corn, so the young might see the morn,
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now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay.”
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Low lie the fields of Athenry,
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where once we watched the small free bird fly,
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our love was on the wing, we had dreams and songs to sing,
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it's so lonely round the fields of Athenry.
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2. By a lonely prison wall I heard a young man ca…lling,
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“Nothing matters, Mary, when you're free.
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Against the famine and the Crown, I rebelled, they cut me down,
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now you must raise our child with dignity.”
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3. By a lonely harbour wall she watched the last star fa…lling,
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as that prison ship sailed out against the sky.
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For she'll live in hope and pray for her love in Botany Bay,
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it's so lonely round the fields of Athenry.
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(capo 2nd) (The Dubliners)