{"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":925634,"song":"The Bard Of Armagh","artist":"Tommy Makem","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11612214-the-bard-of-armagh-chords-by-tommy-makem/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/925634?type=chord","rating":4.59169,"votes":6,"content":"Capo 2nd fret, key of D\r\n\r\n[Intro]\r\n[ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]Dm[/ch]       [ch]Am[/ch]         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nOh list' to the lay of a poor Irish harper,[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]F[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nAnd scorn not the strings in his old withered hands,[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]Am[/ch]                [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nBut remember those fingers, they once could move sharper,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]           [ch]Dm[/ch]            [ch]G7[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nTo raise up the memory of his dear native land.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]Dm[/ch]            [ch]Am[/ch]          [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAt a fair or a wake I would twist my shillelagh,[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Am[/ch]            [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nAnd trip through a jig with my brogues bound with straw.[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]Am[/ch]         [ch]Em[/ch]  \r\nAnd all the pretty colleens around me assembled,[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]Am[/ch]           [ch]Dm[/ch]        [ch]G7[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nLove their bold Phelim Brady, the Bard of Armagh.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]Dm[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nOh how I long to muse on the days of my boyhood,[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Am[/ch]               [ch]F[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nThough four score and three years have littered by since then.[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]Am[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut it brings sweet reflection, as every young joy should,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Am[/ch]            [ch]Dm[/ch]            [ch]G7[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nFor the merry-hearted boys make the best of old men.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[ch]Am[/ch] [ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]G7[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]Dm[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]                [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd when Sergeant Death in his cold arms doth embrace me,[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]           [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G7[/ch]   \r\nAnd lulls me to sleep with sweet 'Erin-go-Bragh',[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nBy the side of my Kathleen, my young wife, oh, place me,[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Am[/ch]             [ch]Dm[/ch]        [ch]G7[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThen forget Phelim Brady, the Bard of Armagh. [/tab]","plain_text":"Capo 2nd fret, key of D\n\n[Intro]\nC F G C\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\nAm Dm G7 C\n\n[Verse 4]","chords":["D","C","F","G","Dm","Am","Em","G7"],"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]},"Dm":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,3,1],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,1]},"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]},"G7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[3,2,0,0,0,1],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,1]}}}