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The Legend

	C	Em	F	G	C
I	went to see a	legend	just the	other	night

Am	Em	F	G
At the Yankee	Stadium,	underneath the	light.

	Am	Em	F	G	C
I	heard a man	speaking after	years and	years in	jail.

	Em	F	G	C
His name it was Man	dela and he	came to	tell his	tale.

	C	Em	F	G	C
The	crowd they cheered him	loudly, ah, but	then the	silence	fell

	Am	Em	F	G
As he	spoke about the	hard years in a	South African	cell.

	Am	Em	F	G	C
And	though he was	free, his	heart was	feelin' the	pain,

	Em	F	G	C
For his country and his	people were	still a part	of that	shame.

	C	Em	F	G	C
He	said he hoped that we would	join him and	walk down	freedom's	path,

	Am	Em	F	G
And	these roads would be the	hardest, oh, but	they would be the	last.

	Am	Em	F	G	C
And to	join our hands to	gether so that	we might	be as	one,

	Em	F	G	C
And to bring ourselves	to the cause so his	battle	could be	won.

	C	Em	F	G	C
I went	home to bed that	evening, went to	sleep and I	had a	dream.

	Am	Em	F	G
I was	standing in the	pouring rain, in an	Irish field of	green.

	Am	Em	F	G	C
And	all around the	headstones were the	martyrs	of the	past.

	Em	F	G	C
I stood there in	silence, and they	spoke to	me at	last.

	C	Em	F	G	C
"Kevin	Barry is my	name, and I	died	in a	cell.

	Am	Em	F	G
They	wanted the names of my	comrades, oh, but this	I would not	tell."

	Am	Em	F	G	C
"And	I am Roger	Casement. I was	shot in	London	town

	Em	F	G	C
For bringing German	rifles to the	lonely	Banna	Strand."

	C	Em	F	G	C
"James	Connolly is my	name. The working	people	are my	life.

Am	Em	F	G
When they shot me	down in Kil	mainham Jail with	strife."

	Am	Em	F	G	C
"And	I am Padraic	Pearse. I was	shot down	by the	foe.

	Em	F	G	C
I read the procla	mation at the	steps of the	GP	O."

	C	Em	F	G	C
And the	last voice that I	heard says, "My	name is	Bobby	Sands,

	Am	Em	F	G
And it's	good to hear Man	dela's words a-	ringin' through the	land.

	Am	Em	F	G	C
"I	want to hear them in	Belfast, in	Derry and	Ty	rone.

	Em	F	G	C
Maybe then those English	soldiers will know it's	time	to go	home."

	C	Em	F	G	C
I	woke up in the	morning. I re	membered	them	all.

	Am	Em	F	G
And	who would be	lieve that they'd	knocked down the Berlin	Wall?

	Am	Em	F	G	C
And	I said "Man	dela, could	this	really	be?

	Em	F	G	C
Maybe now we will see	Ireland reu	nited	and	free.

	Em	F	G	C
Maybe now we will see	Ireland reu	nited	and	free."

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