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