Intro D5 G5 D5 B5 A5 D5 D5 G5 I am Kilrain and I'm a fightin' man and I come from County Clare D5 B5 And the Brits would hang me for a Fenian so I took me leave of there D5 G5 And I crossed the ocean in the "Arrianne", the vilest tub afloat D5 B5 And the captain's brother was a railroad man and he met us at the boat A5 G5 A5 So I joined up with the 20th Maine like I said my friend I'm a fighting man D5 E5 F#5 G5 And we're marchin' south in the pouring rain A5 D5 We're all goin' down to Dixieland D5 G5 I am Kilrain of the 20th Maine and we fight for Chamberlain D5 B5 'Cause he stood right with us when the Johnnies came like a banshee on the wind D5 G5 In the smoke smeared hell of Gettysburg many a mother wept D5 B5 For many a good boy died there, sure, and the air smelt just like death A5 G5 A5 I am the Kilrain of the 20th Maine and I marched to hell and back again D5 E5 F#5 G5 For Colonel Joshua Chamberlain - A5 G5 we're all goin' down to Dixieland D5 G5 I am the Kilrain of the 20th Maine and I damn all gentlemen D5 B5 Whose only worth is their father's name and the sweat of a workin' man D5 G5 Well we come from the farms and the city streets and a hundred foreign lands D5 B5 And we spilled our blood in the battle's heat Now we're all Americans A5 G5 A5 I am the Kilrain of the 20th Maine did I tell you friend I'm a fightin' man D5 E5 F#5 G5 And I'll not be back this way again, A5 G5 'cause we're all goin' down to Dixieland
