The Sea Around Us – Traditional Irish
Tab’d by wompton
(*gradh geal mo croide* - Old Irish Phrase that is something like "Great love of my heart")
[VERSE 1]
D A
They say that the lakes of Killarney are fair
G A
That no stream like the Liffey can ever compare,
D A
If it's water you want, you'll find nothing more rare
G A D
Than the stuff they make down by the ocean.
[CHORUS]
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.
[VERSE 2]
D A
Tom Moore made his "Waters" meet fame and renown
G A
A great lover of anything dressed in a crown
D A
In brandy the bandy old Saxon he'd drown
G A D
But throw ne'er a drop in the ocean.
[CHORUS]
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.
[VERSE 3]
D A
The Scots have their Whisky, the Welch have their speech
G A
And their poets are paid about tenpence a week
D A
Provided no hard words on England they speak
G A D
Oh Lord, what a price for devotion.
[CHORUS]
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.
[VERSE 4]
D A
The Danes came to Ireland with nothing to do
G A
But dream of the plundered old Irish they slew,
D A
"Yeh will in yer vikings" said Brian Boru
G A D
And threw them back into the ocean.
[CHORUS]
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.
[VERSE 5]
D A
Two foreign old monarchs in battle did join
G A
Each wanting his head on the back of a coin
D A
If the Irish had sense they'd drowned both in the Boyne
G A D
And partition thrown into the ocean.
[CHORUS]
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.
A G A D
Oh, thank God we're surrounded by water.
