{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1805094,"song":"The Merry Ploughboy","artist":"Misc Traditional","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11397795-the-merry-ploughboy-chords-by-misc-traditional/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1805094?type=chord","rating":4.74385,"votes":15,"content":"Thumb down on the base note and up with the fingers on the rest of the chord\r\n\r\n[VERSE 1]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G7[/ch]                                     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWell I am the merry ploughboy, and I plough the fields all day.[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G7[/ch]                                            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nTill sudden came across my mind, that I should run away[/tab]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]G7[/ch]                                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSee I’ve always hated slavery, since the day that I was born.[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G7[/ch]                                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSo, I´m off to join the I.R.A. and I´m off tomorrow morn[/tab]\r\n\r\n[CHORUS]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]G7[/ch] \r\nSo we´re off to Dublin in the green, in the green, [/tab]\r\n[tab]                                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWith the helmets glistening in the sun[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G7[/ch] \r\nWhere the bayonets flash and the rifles crash [/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nTo the echo of a Thompson Gun[/tab]\r\n\r\n[VERSE 2]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G7[/ch]                                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI’ll leave behind my old gray coat, and I’ll leave behind my plough.[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G7[/ch]                                                         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd I leave behind my horse and yoke, for no more I´ll need them now[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]G7[/ch]                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd I’ll take my short revolver, and my bandolier of lead[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G7[/ch]                                                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd live or die, I can but try, to avenge my country’s dead[/tab]\r\n\r\n[CHORUS]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]G7[/ch] \r\nSo we´re off to Dublin in the green, in the green, [/tab]\r\n[tab]                                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWith the helmets glistening in the sun[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G7[/ch] \r\nWhere the bayonets flash and the rifles crash [/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nTo the echo of a Thompson Gun[/tab]\r\n\r\n[VERSE 3]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G7[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd I’ll leave behind my Mary, She’s the girl that I adore[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G7[/ch]                                                         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd I wonder what she’ll think of me, when she hears the cannons roar[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]G7[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd when the war is over, and Ireland is free[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G7[/ch]                                                       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI will take her to the church to wed, and a rebel’s wife she’ll be[/tab]\r\n\r\n[CHORUS]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]G7[/ch] \r\nSo we´re off to Dublin in the green, in the green, [/tab]\r\n[tab]                                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWith the helmets glistening in the sun[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G7[/ch] \r\nWhere the bayonets flash and the rifles crash [/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nTo the echo of a Thompson Gun[/tab]","plain_text":"Thumb down on the base note and up with the fingers on the rest of the chord\n\n[VERSE 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n[CHORUS]\n\n\n\n\n\n[VERSE 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n[CHORUS]\n\n\n\n\n\n[VERSE 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n[CHORUS]","chords":["C","G7","A"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"G7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[3,2,0,0,0,1],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,1]}}}