{"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":7314,"song":"Jolly Ploughboy","artist":"Misc Traditional","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11538306-jolly-ploughboy-chords-by-misc-traditional/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/7314?type=chord","rating":0.06824,"votes":0,"content":"[Verse 1]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]                                  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWell, I am a merry ploughboy, and I plough the fields by day,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A[/ch]                                             [ch]A7[/ch]   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nTill a sudden thought came to my mind, that I should run away,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nNow I've always hated slavery, since the day that I was born,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A[/ch]                                  [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nSo I'm off to join the IRA, and I'm off tomorrow morn.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSo, we're off to Dublin, in the Green in the Green,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhere the helmets glisten in the sun,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWhere the bayonets flash and the rifles crash,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]A7[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nTo the echo of a Thompson gun.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]A[/ch]                                   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nNow I leave aside my old gray coat, and I leave aside my plough,[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]A[/ch]                                           [ch]A7[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd I leave aside my horse and yoke, no more I'll need them now.[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd I'll take my short revolver, and my bandolier of lead,[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]                                     [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd live or die I can but try to avenge my country's dead.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSo, we're off to Dublin, in the Green in the Green,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhere the helmets glisten in the sun,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWhere the bayonets flash and the rifles crash,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]A7[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nTo the echo of a Thompson gun.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab]            [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]                            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nNow there's one I leave behind me, she's the coleen I adore,[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]A[/ch]                                                [ch]A7[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd I wonder will she think of me, when she hears them cannons roar,[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAh, but when the war is over, and when dear old Ireland's free,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A[/ch]                                    [ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI will take her to the church to wed, and a rebel's wife she'll be.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSo, we're off to Dublin, in the Green in the Green,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhere the helmets glisten in the sun,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWhere the bayonets flash and the rifles crash,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]A7[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nTo the echo of a Thompson gun.[/tab]","plain_text":"[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]","chords":["D","A","A7","G"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"A7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,0,2,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,0,2,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}