The Minstrel Boy chords by Misc Irish

rbeach@emr1.emr.ca (Rick Beach) writes:

>	The subject line is the name of a movie (since I don't know the
>name of the song :-(). The song is sung by Sean Connery and Michael
>Caine in the movie. I think it is an old Irish or Scottish war/glory/
>love/sacrifice ballad. It has a haunting melody and I would love to
>get chords and tab. Sorry if this is pretty vague :-(

>Rick
>rbeach@emr1.emr.ca

Here are the chords to the traditional Irish song, "The Minstrel Boy
to the War Has Gone"

(I just checked my songbook:  I _do_ have tab.  It will take me some
time (over the weekend, I think) to get it into machine-readable form
I'll be following this up then.)

THE MINSTREL BOY TO THE WAR HAS GONE

(Traditional)

    D                       A   D
The minstrel boy to ...
       G     D                 A    D
In the ranks of death ...
                             A   D
His father's sword he ...
        G    D            A    D
And his wild harp ...

Bm    A  G      A        G  A    D
"Land of song," said the ...
        G               A    D
"Though all the world ...
                             A     D
One sword at least thy ....
    G                     A      D
One faithDful heart ....


The minstrel fell, but .....

And said, "No chain shall .....
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                        | ELYOT:   Nasty insistent little tune.
-- Alan Bostick         | AMANDA:  Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
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