Altan - Blackwaterside
CAPO: 4th Fret
[Verse 1]
C F C
One evening fair to take the air
A# F C
Down by Blackwaterside
F C F C
'Twas a-gazing all around me
A# F C
That the Irish lad I spied
[Verse 2]
F C
All through the part of dark the night
A# F C
We did lie in sport and play
F C F C
When this young man arose and gathered his clothes
A# F C
Saying, "Fare thee well today"
[Verse 3]
F C
That's not the promise that you gave to me
A# F C
When you lay upon my breast
F C F C
You could make me believe with your lying words
A# F C
That the sun rose in the west
[Instrumental]
C F C A# F C
[Verse 4]
F C
Go home, go home to your father's garden
A# F C
Go home and weep your fill
F C F C
And think on your own misfortune
A# F C
You brought on with your wanton will
[Verse 5]
F C
For there's not a girl in this whole wide world
A# F C
As easily led as I
F C F C
And when fishes can fly and the seas run dry
A# F C A# C
It is then that you'll marry I
A# F C
It is then that you'll marry I