The Longest Johns – The Banks Of The Lee (Guitar)

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[Chords] Bm x24432 A x02220 F# 244322 F#sus4 244422 E 022100 [Verse 1]
     Bm                   A
When two lovers meet down beside the green bower

     Bm                   A                F#
when two lovers meet down beneath the green tree

     Bm               A
When Mary, fond Mary, declared unto her lover

     Bm                                A            E
You have stolen my poor heart from the banks of the Lee
[Chorus]
  Bm                        A
I loved her very dearly, so truly and sincerely

          Bm                                A          F#sus4 F#
There was no one in this wide world I loved better than she

      Bm                          A
Every bush and every bower, every wild Irish flower

        Bm                    A            E
Reminds me of my Mary, on the banks of the Lee
[Verse 2]
     Bm                                A
Well don't stay out late, love, on the moorlands, my Mary

     Bm                                A             F#
Well don't stay out late, love, on the moorlands from me

    Bm                            Am
How little was our notion when we parted on the ocean

        Bm                           A            E
That we were forever parted from the banks of the Lee
[Chorus]
  Bm                        A
I loved her very dearly, so truly and sincerely

          Bm                                A          F#sus4 F#
There was no one in this wide world I loved better than she

      Bm                          A
Every bush and every bower, every wild Irish flower

        Bm                    A            E
Reminds me of my Mary, on the banks of the Lee
[Verse 3]
       Bm                             A
I will pluck my love some roses, some blooming Irish roses

       Bm                            A                F#
I will pluck my love some roses, the fairest that ever grew

         Bm                          A
And I'll lay them on the grave of my own true lovely Mary

        Bm                                    A                 E
In that cold and silent church yard where she sleeps 'neath the dew
[Chorus]
  Bm                        A
I loved her very dearly, so truly and sincerely

          Bm                                A          F#sus4 F#
There was no one in this wide world I loved better than she

      Bm                          A
Every bush and every bower, every wild Irish flower

        Bm                    A            E
Reminds me of my Mary, on the banks of the Lee