Irish Traditional - Fields Of Athenry Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

Verse

 By a Glonely prison wall

 I Cheard a young girl GcallingD

GMicheal they are Ctaking you awaDy

GFor you stole Trevelyn's Ccorn

 So the Gyoung might see the Dmorn

 Now a prison ship lies waiting in the Gbay

Chorus

GLow Clie the GFields of AthenEmry

 Where Gonce we watched the small free birds Dfly

 Our Glove was on the Cwing

 We had Gdreams and songs to Dsing

 Its so lonely 'round the Fields of AthenGry

Verse 2

By a lonely prison wall

I heard a young man calling

Nothing matter Mary when your free,

Against the famine and the Crown

I rebelled they cut me down

Now you must raise our child with dignity

Chorus

Verse 3

By a lonely harbor wall

She watched the last star falling

As that prison ship sailed out against the sky

Sure she'll wait and hope and pray

For her love in Botany Bay

It's so lonely 'round the Fields of Athenry

Chorus