{"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":2447499,"song":"Shamrock Shore","artist":"Karan Casey","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11500980-shamrock-shore-chords-by-karan-casey/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2447499?type=chord","rating":0.14785,"votes":0,"content":"[Verse]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nYou brave young sons of Erin's Isle[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI hope you will attend awhile[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\n'Tis the wrongs of dear old Ireland I am going to relate[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n'Twas black and cursed was the day[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhen our parliament was taken away[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd all our grieves and sufferings commences from that day[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nFor our hardy sons and daughters fair[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nTo other countries must repair[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]Bm[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd leave their native land behind, in sorrow to deplore[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nTo seek employment, they must roam[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nFar, far away from their native home[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nFrom that sore, oppressed island that they call the shamrock shore[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nNow Ireland is with plenty blessed[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut the people, we are sore oppressed[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAll by those cursed tyrants we are forced for to obey[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSome haughty landlords for to please[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nOur houses and our lands they'll seize[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nTo put fifty farms into one and chase us all away[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nRegardless of the widow's sighs[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe mother's tears and orphan's cries[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]Bm[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nIn thousands we were driven from home, which grieves my heart full sore[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWe were forced by famine and disease[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nTo emigrate across the seas[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nFrom that sore, oppressed island that they called the shamrock shore[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nOur sustenance all taken away[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe tithes and taxes for to pay[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nTo support that law-protected church to which they do adhere[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd our Irish gentry, well you know[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nTo other countries they do go[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd the money from old Ireland, they squandered here and there[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nFor if our squires would stay at home[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd not to other countries roam[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]Bm[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut to build mills and factories here to employ the labouring poor[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nFor if we had trade and commerce here[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nTo me no nation could compare[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nTo that sore, oppressed island that they call the shamrock shore[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nJohn Bull, he boasts, he laughs with scorn[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd he says that Irishman is born[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nTo be always discontented, for at home we cannot agree[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBut we'll banish the tyrants from our land[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd in harmony like sisters stand[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nTo demand the rights of Ireland, let us all united be[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd our parliament in College Green[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nFor to assemble, it will be seen[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]Bm[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd happy days in Erin's Isle, we soon will have once more[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd dear old Ireland soon will be[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nA great and glorious country[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd peace and blessings soon will smile all around the shamrock shore[/tab]","plain_text":"[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]","chords":["G","Am","D","Em","F","Bm","C","A"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"Bm":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,3,4,2,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,3,2]},"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]},"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]}}}