Misc Traditional – The Sea Around Us (Guitar)

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They say that the lakes of Killarney are fair

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That no stream like the Liffey can ever compare,

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If it's water you want, you'll find nothing more rare

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Than the stuff they make down by the ocean.

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The sea, oh the sea is the gradh geal mo croide*

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Long may it roam between England and me

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It's a sure guarantee that some hour we'll be free

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Oh, thank God we're surrounded by water.

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Tom Moore made his "Waters" meet fame and renown

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A great lover of anything dressed in a crown

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In brandy the bandy old Saxon he'd drown

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But throw ne'er a drop in the ocean.

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The sea, oh the sea is the gradh geal mo croide*

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Long may it roam between England and me

     D                          A                               
It's a sure guarantee that some hour we'll be free

                       G       A  D
Oh, thank God we're surrounded by water.

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The Scots have their Whisky, the Welch have their speech

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And their poets are paid about tenpence a week

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Provided no hard words on England they speak

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Oh Lord, what a price for devotion.

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The sea, oh the sea is the gradh geal mo croide*

A                        G           A  
Long may it roam between England and me

     D                          A                               
It's a sure guarantee that some hour we'll be free

                       G       A  D
Oh, thank God we're surrounded by water.

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The Danes came to Ireland with nothing to do

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But dream of the plundered old Irish they slew,

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"Yeh will in yer vikings" said Brian Boru

                    G    A   D
And threw them back into the ocean.

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The sea, oh the sea is the gradh geal mo croide*

A                        G           A  
Long may it roam between England and me

     D                          A                               
It's a sure guarantee that some hour we'll be free

                       G       A  D
Oh, thank God we're surrounded by water.

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Two foreign old monarchs in battle did join

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Each wanting his head on the back of a coin

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If the Irish had sense they'd drowned both in the Boyne

                     G    A   D
And partition thrown into the ocean.

    D                      G             D      
The sea, oh the sea is the gradh geal mo croide*

A                        G           A  
Long may it roam between England and me

     D                          A                               
It's a sure guarantee that some hour we'll be free

                       G       A  D
Oh, thank God we're surrounded by water.

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Oh, thank God we're surrounded by water.