Christy Moore – Back Home In Derry (Guitar)

                        Em
In eighteen-o-three we sailed out to sea

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Out from the sweet town of Derry

                           Em
For Australia bound, if we didn't all drown

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The marks of our fetters we carried

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In our rusty iron chains we cried for our weans

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Our good women we left in sorrow

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As the main sails unfurled, our curses we hurled

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On the English and thoughts of tomorrow

                                    Em
At the mouth of the Foyle, bade farewell to the soil

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As down below decks we were lying

                           Em
O'Doherty screamed, woken out of a dream

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By a vision of bold Robert dying

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The sun burnt cruel as we dished out the gruel

      D/F#                   Em
Dan O'Conner was down with a fever

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Sixty rebels today, bound for Botany Bay

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How many will reach their receiver

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Oh oh oh oh oh I wish I was back home in Derry

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Oh oh oh oh oh I wish I was back home in Derry

                             Em
I cursed them to hell as our bow fought the swell

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Our ship danced like a moth in the firelight

                               Em
White horses rode high as the devil passed by

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Taking souls to Hades by twilight

D                        C/G
Five weeks out to sea, we were now forty-three

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We buried our comrades each morning

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In our own slime we were lost in the time

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Endless night without dawning

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Oh oh oh oh oh I wish I was back home in Derry

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Oh oh oh oh oh I wish I was back home in Derry

                      Em
Van Diemen's Land is a hell for a man

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To end out his whole life in slavery

                               Em
Where the climate is raw and a gun makes the law

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Neither wind nor rain care for bravery

      D                      C/G
Twenty years have gone by, I have ended my bond

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My comrades' ghosts walk beside me

  Am            Cmaj7
A rebel I came, I'm still the same

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On the cold winds of night you will find me

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Oh oh oh oh oh I wish I was back home in Derry

C/G    G       Am          G*           Asus2
Oh oh oh oh oh I wish I was back home in Derry