The Kelly Family – Only Our Rivers Run Free (Guitar)

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[Intro] F C F G F C G Am G Am [Verse 1]
     C            G         C
When apples still grow in November

    F              C              G
And blossoms still grow from each tree

     F                           C
When leaves are still green in December

     G                           Am
It's then that our lands will be free
[Chorus]
  F                           C
I travelled her hills and her valleys

    F                           G
And still through the sorrows I see

  F                         C
A land that has never known freedom

    G                   Am
And only our rivers run free

    G                   Am
And only our rivers run free
[Verse 2]
  C            G            C
I drink to the death of her manhood

      F         C          G
Those men who'd rather had died

        F                          C
Than to live in the cold chains of bondage

   G                           Am
To bring back their lives were denied
[Chorus]
   F                         C
Oh where are you now when we need you

     F                              G
What burns where the flames used to be

        F                           C
Are you gone like the snows of last winter

         G                   Am
And will only our rivers run free

         G                   Am
And will only our rivers run free
[Verse 3]
    C        G              C
How sweet is life but we're crying

    F          C             G
How mellow the wine but it's dry

    F                          C
How fragrant the rose but it's dying

    G                        Am
How gentle the breeze but it sighs
[Chorus]
     F                        C
What good is in new when it's aging

     F                          G
What joy in the eyes that can't see

             F                      C
When there's sorrow in sunshine and flowers

          G                   Am
And still only our rivers run free

          G                   Am
And still only our rivers run free

  F                           C
I travelled her hills and her valleys

    F                           G
And still through the sorrows I see

  F                         C
A land that has never known freedom

    G                   Am
And only our rivers run free

    G                   Am
And only our rivers run free
[Outro]
    G                   Am
And only our rivers run free

    G                   Am
And only our rivers run free

    G                   Am
And only our rivers run free

    G                   Am
And only our rivers run free

    G                   Am
And only our rivers run free

    G                   Am
And only our rivers run free