• Song:

    The Wearing Of The Green

  • Artist:

    Dion Boucicault

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The Wearing Of The Green chords
Anonymous Ballad 1798 / lyrics by Dion Boucicault

D (xx0232@1)                             AO (x02220@1)Paddy dear, and did ye hear the news that's goin' round?
    G (320003@1)                   D (xx0232@1)    A (x02220@1)           DThe (xx0232@1)shamrock is by law forbid to grow on Irish ground!
                                            ANo (x02220@1)more Saint Patrick's Day we'll keep, his color can't be seen,
    G (320003@1)             D (xx0232@1)           A (x02220@1)            Dfor (xx0232@1)there's a cruel law ag'in the Wearin' o' the Green."

D (xx0232@1)                           AI (x02220@1)met with Napper Tandy, and he took me by the hand,
       G (320003@1)                   D (xx0232@1)          A (x02220@1)          Dand (xx0232@1)he said, "How's poor old Ireland, and how does she stand?"
                                         A"She's (x02220@1)the most distressful country that ever yet was seen,
            G (320003@1)             D (xx0232@1)                 A (x02220@1)            Dfor (xx0232@1)they're hanging men and women there for the Wearin' o' the Green."

D (xx0232@1)                          A"So (x02220@1)if the color we must wear be England's cruel red,
G (320003@1)              D (xx0232@1)               A (x02220@1)           Dlet (xx0232@1)it remind us of the blood that Irishmen have shed
                                         AAnd (x02220@1)pull the shamrock from your hat, and throw it on the sod,
    G (320003@1)                D (xx0232@1)                     A (x02220@1)            Dbut (xx0232@1)never fear, 'twill take root there, though underfoot 'tis trod.

D (xx0232@1)                                    AWhen (x02220@1)laws can stop the blades of grass from growin' as they grow,
    G (320003@1)                D (xx0232@1)               A (x02220@1)            Dand (xx0232@1)when the leaves in summer-time their color dare not show
                                   AThen (x02220@1)I will change the color too I wear in my caubeen,
    G (320003@1)                   D (xx0232@1)                    A (x02220@1)            Dbut (xx0232@1)till that day, please God, I'll stick to the Wearin' o' the Green.

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