Kate Bush – Mná Na Héireann (Guitar)
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Song: Mná na hÉireann (Woman of Ireland)
Artist: Kate Bush
Music: Seán Ó Riada
Poem: Peadar Ó Doirnín
Arrangement: Kate Bush with Dónal Lunny
and Fiachra Trench
Album: Common ground - Voices of modern Irish music
Tabbed by DJ 23rd Feb 2016
(Will then sound in the recorded key of Bm)
Chord names & fret positions are relative to the capo
Am7 = x02010 Em = 022000 Bm7/D = xx0435
D/A = x00232 Dsus2 = xx0230 D = xx0232
Am = x02210 Cadd9 = x32030 G = 320033
N.C. = No chords
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[Intro]
Am7 D/A Am D/A | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | Am7 D/A Am D/A | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
[Verse 1]
Am7 D/A Tá bean in Éirinn a phronnfadh séad damh Am D/A Is mo sháith le n-ól Am7 D/A Is tá bean in Éirinn is ba bhinne léithe Am7 D G Mo ráfla ceoil no seinm théad N.C. Em Dsus2 Cadd9 Atá bean in Éirinn is níorbh fhearr léi beo Am7 Bm7/D Mise ag léimnigh nó leagtha i gcré D G Is mo thárr faoi fhód
[Verse 2]
N.C. Am7 D/A Tá bean in Éirinn a bheadh ag éad liom Am D Mur' bhfaighfinn ach póg Am7 D/A Ó bhean ar aonach, nach ait an scéala, Am D G Is mo dháimh féin leo, tá bean ab fhearr liom Em Dsus2 Cadd9 Nó cath is céad dhíobh nach bhfagham go deo Am7 Bm7/D Is tá cailín spéi - riúil ag fear gan Bhéarla, D G Dubhgh - ránna róin
[Violin Break]
Am7 D/A Am D/A | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | Am7 D/A Am D/A | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
[Verse 3]
Am7 D/A Tá bean a déarfadh dá siulfainn léithe Am D/A Go bhfai - ghinn an tór Am7 D/A Is tá bean 'na léine is fearr a méin Am D G No na táinte bó le bean a bhuairfeadh Em Dsus2 Cadd9 Baile an Mhaoir is clár Thír Eoghain, Am7 Is ní fheicim leigheas ar mo ghalar Bm7/D D G Féin ach scaird a dh'ól
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A paraphrasing translation...
[Verse 1]
There's a woman in Ireland who'd bestow a charm on me
and plenty to drink,
There's a woman in Ireland to whom my song
Is sweeter to her than the music of strings
There's a woman in Ireland who'd rather
I were dead than leaping,
My heart beneath the sod
[Verse 2]
There's a woman in Ireland who'd be jealous
If I were to get only a kiss from a woman at a fair
Isn't it strange but I'm drawn to them all
There's a woman I prefer to a battalion
and a hundred of them whom I'll never have,
An ugly man, without English, with a beautiful girl
[Verse 3]
There's a woman who'd say
That if I courted her I'd have gold,
And there's a woman in her best blouse
She's Worth more than the cattle raids
Of Ballymoyer and the plain of Tyrone,
And I see no cure for my disease
But to drink a torrent of ale