Misc Traditional – A Mothers Love Is A Blessing (Guitar Fingerpicking)

   C     G       C
An Irish boy was leaving

F           G7     C
Leaving his native home

F            G7       C
Crossing the broad At lantic

      D     D7        G7
Once more he wished to roam

    C         G           C
And as he was leaving his mother

         F      D         C
Who was  standing at the  quay

    F         G7      C        Am
She threw her arms around his  waist

     Fm      A7       C
And  this to him did  say

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A mother's love's a blessing

   F      G7        C
No matter where you roam

  F     G7           C
Keep her while she's living

       D        D7        G7
You'll miss her when she's gone

C        G      C
Love her as in childhood

        F    G7      C
Though feeble old and grey

 F        G7         C             Am
For you'll never miss your mother's love

           Fm      G7         C
Till she's buried beneath the clay

    C       G         C
And as the years grow older

     F      G7      C
I'll settle down in life

    F      G7          C
And choose a nice young colleen

    D        D7   G  G7
And take her for my wife

    C      G           C
And as the babies grow older

    F      G7       C
And climb around my knee

    F          G7       C          Am
I'll teach them the very same lesson that

   Fm      G7       C
My mother taught to me

  C         G        C
A mother's love's a blessing

   F      G7        C
No matter where you roam

  F    G7           C
Keep her while she's living

       D      D7      G   G7
You'll miss her when she's gone

C        G      C
Love her as in childhood

        F    G7      C
Though feeble old and grey

 F        G7         C             Am
For you'll never miss your mother's love

           Fm      G7         C
Till she's buried beneath the clay