Intro: Em G Em G Em G Em
verse 1
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I sat within the valley green, sat there with my true love
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And my fond heart strove to choose between the old love and the new love
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The old for her, the new that made me think on Ireland dearly
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While soft the wind blew down the glade and shook the golden barley
verse 2
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Twas hard the mournful words to frame, to break the ties that bound us
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Ah but harder still to bear the shame of foreign chains around us
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And so I said the mountain glen I'll seek at morning early
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And join the brave united men while soft winds shook the barley
verse 3
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Twas sad I kissed away her tears, her arms around me clinging
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When to my ears that fateful shot came out the wild wood ringing
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The bullet pierced my true love's breast in life's young spring so early
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And there upon my breast she died while soft winds shook the barley
verse 4
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I bore her to some mountain stream, where many's the summer blossom
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I placed with branches soft and green about her gore-stained bosom
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I wept and kissed her clay-cold corpse then rushed o'er vale and valley
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My vengeance on the foe to wreak while soft winds shook the barley
Verse 5
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And it's blood for blood without remorse, I've took in Oulart Hollow*
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While to her grave my love's cold corpse where I full soon may follow
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Around her grave I wander drear noon night and morning early
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With breaking heart... whene'er I hear the wind that shakes the barley