Creggan White Hare chords by Traditional

The Creggan White Hare

Verse:
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In the lowland of Creggan, there lives a white hare,
        G                D
As swift as the swallow that flies through that air.
    C            Em     G
You may tramp the world over but none can compare
C           D          Em  C
With the pride of low Creggan, the bonnie white hare.

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One clean autumn morning, as you may suppose,
        G              D
The red golden sun o’er the green mountain rose.
    C          Em    G
Barney Conway came down and he did declare,
C           D         Em  C
“This day I’ll put an end to that bonnie white hare.”

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He searched through the lowlands and down through the glens,
          G                D
And among the wild bushes where the white hare had ends,
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Till at last coming home o’er the heather so bare,
C           D         Em  C
From behind a wild thistle jumped out the white hare.

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“Bang! bang!” went his gun and his dog it slipped too.
        G              D
As swift as the wind over the green mountain flew.
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But the dog soon came back, which made poor Barney sigh,
C          D           Em C
For he knew that the white hare had bid him goodbye.

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We’re some jolly sportsmen down here from Pomeroy
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From Cookstown, Dungannon, and likewise the Moy.
     C             Em     G
With our pedigree greyhounds we’ve travelled afar
C           D          Em  C
And we’ve come down to Creggan in our fine motor car.

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Away to the lowlands these huntsmen did go
         G               D
In search of the white hare they look high and low,
    C            Em     G
Till at last Barney Conway on a bog bank so bare
C          D            Em   C
Shouted out to these huntsmen, “There lies the white hare.”

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They call up their greyhounds from off the green lea
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And Barney and the huntsmen they jumped high with glee,
  C             Em    G
For there on the turf bank all gathered around,
C          D           Em C
Seven dogs and nine men did that poor hare surround.

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No wonder the white hare did tremble with fear
          G              D
As she stood on her toes and would raise her big ears,
    C               Em   G
But she stood on her toes and with one gallant spring,
C          D          Em     C
She cleared over the greyhounds and broke through the ring.

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Well the chase I went on, ’twas beautiful view
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As swift as the wind o’er the green mountains flew.
     C             Em    G
But with pedigree greyhounds, they didn’t go far.
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They come back and went home in their fine motor car.

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There come another man and you all know him well;
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His name is Pat Devlin and Bonnie Black Nell.
  C              Em        G
In search of the white hare, he says, “I’ll have fun.
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Here’s fifty to one that Black Nell does her turn.”

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Five turns the hare got then from Bonnie Black Nell,
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And the sixth one was given around John Haughey’s well.
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‘Twas there we lost sight of the hare and the dog,
  C      D        Em    C
And ten minutes later they come o’er the bog.

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Well, the chase it went on. It was great for to see.
            G                D
The white hare and the greyhound they roamed light and free,
     C              Em       G
Till she travelled to Esker where she knew the lands well,
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And to Bonnie Black Nell she soon bid farewell.

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G            Em     C
And now to conclude and finish it’s time.
         G            D
I hope you’ll forgive me for singing this rhyme.
      C         Em      G
If there’s any amongst you in Carrick more fair,
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