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
