{"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":1823777,"song":"Mick Ryans Lament","artist":"Tim O'Brien","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11402773-mick-ryans-lament-chords-by-tim-o-brien/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1823777?type=chord","rating":4.91214,"votes":12,"content":"[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nWell my name is Mic Ryan, I’m lyin’ here still [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIn a lonely spot near where I was killed[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBy a red man defending his native land, [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIn the place that they call the Little Big Horn[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd I swear I did not see the irony [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nwhen I rode with the Seventh Calvary[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI thought that we fought for the land of the free [/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nwhen we rode from Fort Lincoln that morning[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd the band they played the Garryowen, [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\r\nBrass was shining, flags a flowin’[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]Em[/ch]    [ch]Am[/ch]    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI swear if I had only known [/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI’d have wished that I’d died back in Vicksburg[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nFor my brother and me, we had barely escaped, [/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nfrom the Hell that was Ireland in ‘48[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                            \r\nTwo angry young lads who had learned how to hate [/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut we loved the idea of Amerikay[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]         \r\nAnd we cursed our cousins who fought and bled [/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nin their bloody coats of bloody red[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch] \r\nThe sun never sets on the bloody dead [/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]               \r\nof those who have chosen an empire[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut we’d find a better life somehow [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]\r\nin the land where no man has to bow[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]Em[/ch]          [ch]Am[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIt seemed right then and it seems right now [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nthat Paddy he died for the union[/tab]\r\n  \r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAh, but Michael he somehow got turned around [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch] \r\nHe had stolen the dream that he thought he’d found.[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nNow I never will see that holy ground [/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nFor I turned into something I hated[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd I’m haunted by the Garryowen, [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\r\nDrums a beatin, bugles blowin’ [/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]Em[/ch]    [ch]Am[/ch]   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI swear if I had only known, [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI’d lie with my brother in Vicksburg[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd the band they played the Garryowen, [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\r\nBrass was shinin’ flags a flowin’[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]Em[/ch]    [ch]Am[/ch]    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI swear if I had only known, [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI’d lie with my brother in Vicksburg[/tab]","plain_text":"[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]","chords":["C","G","F","Em","Am"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}