verse 1
B F#m
Wipe the blood from your lip with the flesh of your hand
B A
There's no thorn in the side left to grow
B F#m
So let's cherish the names that were lost for an age
D A B
With the rue now the supper must go
B F#m
Where traditions they blend lives a home on the mend
B A
The grass glistens now for all fights
B F#m
So let's sever the shame we have come to reclaim
D A B
With the water's retreat feel the shore
Pre-Chorus 1
E5 A B
When the red rose pales lay a thousand graves many more
E5 A F#m
Though the ghost still haunts for the day we've come to live for
D A
Don't look back, for what's dead now is saved
F#m A
The exiled are home where their souls are kept safe
D A
Take me back on the crest of a wave
B A B
No more tears for your paddy's lament
D
No more tears
A
No more paddy's
B
Lament
verse 2
B F#m
Rip the greed from his heart, there's no sorrow tonight
B A
For now once paddy's dreams sleep divine
B F#m
Where the silence ya hear is the prosper we share
D A B
The only blade is a razor sharp smile
Pre-Chorus 2
E5 A B
Still the church bell rings to collect the sins that still roam
E5 A F#m
But the only thing lost is the pain of nothing once more
D A
Don't look back, for what's dead now is saved
F#m A
The exiled are home where their souls are kept safe
D A
Take me back on the crest of a wave
B A B
No more tears for your paddy's lament
D
No more tears
A
No more paddy's
B
Lament
Interlude
F#m A B
F#m A F#m
verse 3
B N.C.
Grab the leaf of the branch from the tree in its ground
B N.C.
Where the roots claimed the earth many toiled
B N.C.
To a land that now stands under no one's command
D A B
And her beauty let no man destroy
B F#m
So remember the gun and the damage it's done
B A
The last drop has been spilled for you and I
B F#m
Let there be no despair for the rule we once shared
D A B
Brush the tear from the eye that still shines
Pre-Chorus 1
E5 A B
When the red rose pales lay a thousand graves many more
E5 A F#m
Though the ghost still haunts for the day we've come to live for
D A
Don't look back, for what's dead now is saved
F#m A
The exiled are home where their souls are kept safe
D A
Take me back on the crest of a wave
B A B
No more tears for your paddy's lament
D
No more tears
A
No more paddy's
B
Lament
D A
Don't look back, for what's dead now is saved
F#m A
The exiled are home where their souls are kept safe
D A
Take me back on the crest of a wave
B A B
No more tears for your paddy's lament
D
No more tears
A
No more paddy's
B
Lament