Irish Songs With Easy Chords & Lyrics
Snowy Breasted Pearl
| C | Am | C | G7 |
There's | Collen | fair as | May for a year and for a | day |
| C | Am | F | G7 | C |
I have | sought by eve | ry | way her | heart to | gain. |
C | Am | C | G7 |
There's no art of | tongue or | eye, fond youths with maidens | try |
| C | Am | F | G7 | C |
But I've | tried with | ceaseless | sighs | yet tried in | vain |
| C | Am | Em | G | Em |
If to | France or | far off to | Spain she'd | cross the watery | main |
| F | D7 | G7 |
To | see her face | again the seas I'd | brave |
| C | Am | C |
For if 'tis | heavens | decre | e that mine she may notG7] be |
| C | Am | F | G7 | C |
May the | Son of | Mary | me in | mercy | save |
Oh thou blooming milk-white dove,
To whom I've given true love,
Do not ever reprove my constancy;
There are maidens would be mine, with wealth in land or kine,
If my heart would but incline to turn from thee;
But a kiss with welcome bland, and a touch of thy fair hand,
Are all that I demand would'st thou not spurn,
For if not mine dear girl, oh snowy breasted pearl,
May I never from the fair with life return.
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