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Ireland
by Garth Brooks You can find this song on Garth's Fresh Horses album at CD Universe or Amazon.com .
This is a very rousing song that strikes to the celtic heart. The first verse is done slowly, and the rest in a fast tempo
with the beat picking up on the last chord of the first verse.
G C G They say Mother Earth is breathing C G With each wave that finds the shore C G Her soul rises in the evening C D G For to open twilight's doors Em G Her eyes are the stars in heaven C Watching o'er us all the while G D And her heart it is in Ireland G Deep within the Emerald Isle
G C G We are forty against hundreds, C G In someone else's bloody war. C G We know not why we're fighting, C D G Or what we're dying for. Em G They will storm us in the morning, C When the sunlight turns the sky. G D Death is waiting for its dance now, G Fate has sentenced us to die.
Chorus: Em C G Ireland, I am coming home! C G I can see your rolling fields of green Em D And fences made of stone. Em C G I am reaching out, won't you take my hand Em C D G I'm coming home, I-re-land!
G C G Oh the captain he lay bleeding C G And I can hear him calling me C G These men are yours now for the leading C D G Show them to their destiny Em G As I look up all around me C I see the ragged tired and torn G D I tell them to make ready G Cause we're not waiting for the morn. Chorus
G C G Now the fog is deep and heavy C G As we forge the dark and fear C G We can hear their horses breathing C D G As in silence we draw near Em G There are no words to be spoken C Just a look to say goodbye G D I draw a breath and night is broken G As I scream our battle cry Chorus
Ending (add after final chorus)
Em C D G Yes I am home, I-re-land!
(Continue strumming for three measures then softly...) C G We were forty against hundreds…. (fade) Return to the Others' Songs
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