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The Wind That Shakes The Barley

Dm	Gm	Dm
I sat with	in a	valleyAm green

Dm	C	Dm
Sat there	with my	true love

	Gm	Dm	Am
And my fond heart	strove to	choose be	tween

	Dm	C	Dm
The	old love	and the	new love

	C
The old for her, the	new that made

	Bb	Am
Me	think on Ireland	dearly

	Dm	Gm	Dm	Am
While	soft the	wind blew	down the	glade

	Dm	C	Dm
And	shook the	golden	barley

Twas
hard the mournful words to frame
To break the ties that bound us
Ah, but harder still to bear the shame
Of foreignchains around us
And so I said, "The mountain glen
I'll seek at morning early
And join the brave united men"
While soft wind shook the barley

Twas sad I kissed away her tears
Her arms around me clinging
When to my ears that fateful shot
Come out the wildwood ringing
The bullet pierced my true love's breast
In life's young spring so early
And there upon my breast she died
While soft wind shook the barley

I bore her to some mountain stream
And many's the summer blossom
I placed with branches soft and green
About her gore-stained bosom
I wept and kissed her clay-cold corpse
Then rushed o'er vale and valley
My vengeance on the foe to wreak
While soft wind shook the barley

Twas blood for blood without remorse
I took at Oulart Hollow
I placed my true love's clay-cold corpse
Where mine full soon may follow
Around her grave I wondered drear
Noon, night and morning early
With aching heart when e'er I hear
The wind that shakes the barley

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