Misc Traditional – The Merry Ploughboy (Guitar)

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The Merry Ploughboy – Traditional Irish Music Tab’d by wompton Thumb down on the base note and up with the fingers on the rest of the chord [VERSE 1]

       C            G7                                     C
Well I am the merry ploughboy, and I plough the fields all day.

      G7                                            C
Till sudden came across my mind, that I should run away

                      G7                                C
See I’ve always hated slavery, since the day that I was born.

        G7                                          C
So, I´m off to join the I.R.A. and I´m off tomorrow morn

[CHORUS]

          C                   G7 
So we´re off to Dublin in the green, in the green, 

                                   C
With the helmets glistening in the sun

          G7 
Where the bayonets flash and the rifles crash 

                          C
To the echo of a Thompson Gun

[VERSE 2]

       C             G7                                      C
I’ll leave behind my old gray coat, and I’ll leave behind my plough.

      G7                                                         C
And I leave behind my horse and yoke, for no more I´ll need them now

                         G7                          C
And I’ll take my short revolver, and my bandolier of lead

    G7                                                 C
And live or die, I can but try, to avenge my country’s dead

[CHORUS]

          C                   G7 
So we´re off to Dublin in the green, in the green, 

                                   C
With the helmets glistening in the sun

          G7 
Where the bayonets flash and the rifles crash 

                          C
To the echo of a Thompson Gun

[VERSE 3]

         C               G7                           C
And I’ll leave behind my Mary, She’s the girl that I adore

      G7                                                         C
And I wonder what she’ll think of me, when she hears the cannons roar

                    G7                   C
And when the war is over, and Ireland is free

       G7                                                       C
I will take her to the church to wed, and a rebel’s wife she’ll be

[CHORUS]

          C                    G7 
So we´re off to Dublin in the green, in the green, 

                                   C
With the helmets glistening in the sun

          G7 
Where the bayonets flash and the rifles crash 

                          C
To the echo of a Thompson Gun