Misc Traditional – Only Our Rivers Run Free (Guitar)

     C            G         C      
When apples still grow in November

     F          C            G     
When blossoms remain on each tree

     F                           C       Am
When leaves are still green in December

     G                          Am    
It's then that our land will be free

  F                       C        
I wander her hills and her valleys

    F                      Em         
And still, to my sorrow, I see

  F                        C        Am        
A land that has never know freedom

      G                   Am     
Where only her rivers run free           

  C            G            C        
I drink to the death of her manhood

      F          C           G      
Those men, who'd rather have died

        F                          C        Am
Than to live in the cold chains of bondage

   G                             Am      
To bring back their rights, were denied

   F                         C        
Oh where are you now when we need you

     F                             Em    
What burns where the flame used to be

        F                            C       Am  
Are you gone, like the snows of last winter

         G                   Am     
And will only our rivers run free  

    C        G               C       
How sweet is life, but we're crying

    F          C               G      
How mellow the wine, yet we're dry

    F                           C      Am
How fragrant the rose, but it's dying

    G                       Am     
How gentle the wind, but it sighs

     F                            C       
What good is in youth when you're ageing

     F                       Em      
What joy is in eyes that can see

             F                      C        Am     
That there's sorrow in sunshine and flowers

   G                   Am     
If only our rivers run free