Tom: C
G C D Em
Where the wild waves surging foam, headlands appearing
Dm G Em D
Clouded in silver spray, flashing through heaven's bright ray
C Am G
For thy glory and pride, lovely Éireann
[Verse 2]
N.C. G Em C D
Sweet, sweet Inis Cathaigh, the sacred, the blessed
C Am F D
Fit place for a saint or a warrior's rest
G Em C D
Your sentinel towers left each storm repressed
C Am D G
Your mourning waves wail for my Éireann
[Verse 3]
N.C. G Em C D
There is nothing now left, holy isle, but thy name
C Am F D
The ruin of thy glory, thy grandeur, thy fame
G Em C D
For foreign laws see thy sadness and pain
C Am D G
That now cause thy anguish, my Éireann
[Chorus]
F G C Dm G Am
Lonely and sad I roam, far from my island home
G C D Em
Where the wild waves surging foam, headlands appearing
Dm G Em D
Clouded in silver spray, flashing through heaven's bright ray
C Am G
For thy glory and pride, lovely Éireann
[Verse 4]
N.C.G Em C D
How dearly I longed for to wander once more
C Am F D
To the loved ones I left at my old cabin door
G Em C D
My blessings I'd given a thousand times o'er
C Am D G
And a prayer and a tear for poor Éireann
[Verse 5]
N.C. G Em C D
Sad, sad is my fate in this weary exile
C Am F D
Dark, dark is the night cloud o'er lone Shanakyle
G Em C D
Where the murdered sleep silently pile upon pile
C Am D G
In the coffinless graves of poor Éireann
[Chorus]
F G C Dm G Am
Lonely and sad I roam, far from my island home
G C D Em
Where the wild waves surging foam, headlands appearing
Dm G Em D
Clouded in silver spray, flashing through heaven's bright ray
C Am G
For thy glory and pride, lovely Éireann
