{"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":2445783,"song":"Erins Lovely Home","artist":"Karan Casey","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11500703-erins-lovely-home-chords-by-karan-casey/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2445783?type=chord","rating":0,"votes":0,"content":"[Intro]\r\n[ch]G[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nCome, all ye sons of Paddy's land and listen unto me[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\n'Til I relate of the hardships great, a-crossing o'er the sea[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nFor the want of bread, ten thousands fled, so far across the foam[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd left the land where they were born, called Erin's lovely home[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBlack forty-seven I'll never forget, when the fever it stalked the land[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd the famine without mercy, it stretched forth its dreadful hand[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThere's many's the child in cold death lay, their parents they did mourn[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]                        [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhile landlord's agents pulled down our roofs, in Erin's lovely home[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]                [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]   [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nMy father was a farming man, reared to industry[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nHe had two sons, they were men strong, and lovely daughters three[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nOur farm was too small to feed us all, so some of us had to roam[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWith sisters two, I bid adieu, to Erin's lovely home[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nMy father sold the second cow, he borrowed twenty pounds[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd in the merry month of May, we sailed from Sligo town[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThere were thousands more left upon the shore, all anxious for to roam[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd leave the land where they were born, called Erin's lovely home[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Instrumental]\r\n[ch]Em[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]Em[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]Am[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWe were scarcely seven days at sea, when the fever it plagued our crew[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]D[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]                      [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThey were falling like the autumn leaves, bidding friends and life adieu[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nNow the raging waves sweep o'er their graves amidst the ocean foam[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]                              [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nTheir friends may mourn, but they'll never return, to Erin's lovely home[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nMy loving sisters, they both took ill, their lives they were taken away[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]D[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd oh, it grieves my heart full sore, to cast them in the sea[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nDown in the deep now they do sleep, they never more will roam[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]                        [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIn heaven I'll meet with my sisters sweet, from Erin's lovely home[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]C[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI'm in the land of liberty, where plenty it does abound[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhere the labouring man gets full reward, for the tilling of his ground[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                         [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThere's naught I can see that can comfort me, as an exile I must roam[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd end my days far, far away, from Erin's lovely home[/tab]","plain_text":"[Intro]\nG\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Instrumental]\nEm  G  Em  G  Am  G  D  G  C\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]","chords":["G","C","D","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]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}