Intro
B F# B F# B F# B F#
[Verse 1]
C# F#
Kids wear white garters and smell like their mothers
B F#
Whose husbands and fathers alike
C# B
Drink black beer in the same public houses
B C# F#
Smelling of smoke and strong whiskey
B F#
C# F#
Mammies and daddies and skipping ropes
B F#
Lectures from priests, living in hope
C# B
They've not mistaken the brand of their coats
B C# F#
Paid for by their spiritual teachings
B F#
C# F#
G# busy year this, the streets running red
B F#
How many sent to a nuptial bed
C# B
And how many sent home to a winter of graves
B C# F#
And how many wait in for the slaughter
B F#
[Chorus]
F# B C#
Oh the holy ground
B G#m C#
Ceud mile failte, there's saints and there's scholars to see
F# B C#
Oh the holy ground
B G#m C#
The far away hills ain't as green as they once used to be
[Bridge]
D#m G#m D#m G#m
[Verse 2]
C# F#
It's Easter again and we cannot forget
B F#
Brothers and sisters and all that was said
C# B
So practice your pipes, stand proud in the wet
B C# F#
But the eyes of the world are upon you
B F#
C# F#
God in his mercy has given us men
B F#
To lead us to peace but they can't bring an end
C# B
To the profits that pay off the lease on the land
B C# F#
We still send them over the water
B F#
C# F#
Seventeen years and Kelly's a man
B F#
Who stands on the street with a gun in his hand
C# B
He's Protecting the pipers that play in the band
B C# F#
While the enemy waits with an army
[Chorus]
F# B C#
Oh the holy ground
B G#m C#
Ceud mile failte, there's saints and there's scholars to see
F# B C#
Oh the holy ground
B G#m C#
The far away hills ain't as green as they once used to be
[Bridge]
D#m G#m D#m G#m
[Verse 3]
C# F#
Dia le hEireann, suckle the empire
B F#
Dia le hEireann, suffer the loss
C# B
Of the green to the blue while the media feeds
B C# F#
On the blood and the pain and the hatred
B F#
C# F#
Father walks home on the colourless night
B F#
And the organisation has blinded his sight
C# F#
His wife and his kids are sleeping tonight
B C#
In the arms of sweet Jesus and Mary
[Chorus]
F# B C#
Oh the holy ground
B G#m C#
Ceud mile failte, there's saints and there's scholars to see
F# B C#
Oh the holy ground
B G#m C#
The far away hills ain't as green as they once used to be
(Repeat to Fade)
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