Brier, Galway Shawl (2009)
Key: :[B] (w: Traditional)
VERSE 1:
At Oran-
[B]-more, in the County Galway
One pleasant
[G#m] evening, in the month of
[E] May
[F#]
I spied a
[B] damsel, she was fair and handsome
And her beauty
[G#m] nearly took,
[F#] my breath a-
[B]-way
CHORUS:
She wore no
[B] jewels, nor costly diamonds
No paint nor
[G#m] powder, no none at
[E] all
[F#]
But she wore a
[B] bonnet, with ribbons on it
And around her
[G#m] shoulders,
[F#] was the Galway
[B] shawl
VERSE 2:
She kept on
[B] walking, she kept on talking
'Till her fathers
[G#m] cottage, came in to
[E] view
[F#]
Said she: "Come
[B] in sir, and meet my father
And play to
[G#m] please him,
[F#] The Foggy
[B] Dew"
VERSE 3:
I played "The
[B] Black Bird", "The Stack of Barley"
"Old Rodney's
[G#m] Glory", and "The Foggy
[E] Dew"
[F#]
She sang each
[B] note, like an Irish linnet
Till tears came
[G#m] in-to,
[F#] her eyes of
[B] blue
