Its A Long Way Home To Donegal Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

G Bm C D G D

Verse 1

I'll Gfollow their father wherever you go,

I Bmknow that I'll snow, we can bestow tCogether,

With a Ddrink in our chest we'll be stGrong, we'll be strDong

Verse 2

While I Glove you dear mother, now, don't you frown,

I'll be Bmback some day without the grey skies,

We'll have Csupper, togetDher again, we'll have suGpper, once Dagain

Chorus

It's a Glong way hDome

It's a Clong way hDome to DGonegal D

Verse 3

so fGarewell my beauty, my sweet young girl,

i'll Bmsee you again, I'll marry you as well,

we'll make Clove, have sweet chDildren, and make Glove, once aDgain

Verse 4

Then GDecember the 12th, a letter it came,

It rBme-sung your young love, was laid by a fever last nCight,

Oh noD, I never saGw, Oh, agDain

Chorus x 2

Instrumental

G, Bm, C, D, G, D X2

Verse 5

Oh say sGo my brother, wherever we roam,

I lBmove you like the places we go,

and our fCriends smoke ciDgarettes, and they're frGiends, best of fDriends

Verse 6

Oh there's Gno Irish blood, in our English years,

we fiBmght with our fists and swallow our fears,

and be Cstrong, with a dDrink in our chest we'll be sGtrong, we'll be Dstrong

Chorus x2

False End

G

End Instrumental

(D, G, D, A

D, G, D, A, D) x6

(1st time just banjo, then 4x all, 6th time fade out)