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