Verse
D#m C# F# B
You brave Irish heroes where e'er you may be
F# B F# A#m
I pray, stand a moment and listen to me
F# C# F# C#
Your sons and fair daughters are all going away
D#m C# F# B
And thousands are sailing to Americay
[Verse 2]
D#m C# F# B
So, good luck to those people and safe may they land
F# B F# A#m
They are leaving their country for a far distant strand
F# C# F# C#
They're leaving old Ireland, no longer can stay
D#m C# F# B
And thousands are sailing to Americay
[Verse 3]
D#m C# F# B
Now the night before leaving, they are bidding goodbye
F# B F# A#m
And it's early next morning, their hearts give a sigh
F# C# F# C#
They turn, kiss their mothers and then they will say
D#m C# F# B
"Farewell, dear old father, we must now go away"
[Instrumental]
D#m
[Verse 4]
D#m C# F# B
Oh, I pity the mother who rears up the child
F# B F# A#m
And likewise the father who labours and toils
F# C# F# C#
To try to support them, he will work night and day
D#m C# F# B
And when they are reared up, they will go away
[Verse 5]
D#m C# F# B
So, good luck to those people and safe may they land
F# B F# A#m
They are leaving their country for a far distant strand
F# C# F# C#
They're leaving old Ireland, no longer can stay
D#m C# F# B
And thousands are sailing to Americay
[Outro]
Am