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