Lily chords by Christy Moore

• Difficulty: Beginner

🎸 Verse 1:
   G        Em        C       D
I crossed the River Liffey bridge and went on up the town
D            Am       G       D
By Coffey’s clock twas plain to see how time was moving on
 C         D        D          Em
Past Neeson’s and John Johnson’s, Tommy Tougher’s and Keadeen
     G          Em   C           D
How’s it going said Paddy Dolan, game ball said Skinner Behan

🎸 Verse 2:
 G         Em        C        D
The morning hooter called the workers to the factory line
D            Am     G        D
To weave the bales of sisal into rope and binder twine
C          D      D         Em
Beneath the weeping ash I heard Jack Lawlor’s anvil ring
G            Em       C       D
Back down the town in Cummins’s heard John McCormack Sing

🎸 Chorus:
    G      D       C        D
From Hawkfield and Kilbelin, Chinatown and Rosy’s Lane
F           Em         C      D
Scattered round the world we dreamt of coming home again
     G     C   G      G     D   C
From the Rocks of Sydney Harbour, the Bronx and Birmingham
    Am        D       Am        D7
To the Sandy Hills, the Seven Springs, The waters of the Fen

🎸 Verse 3:
 G        Em         C       D
Walking down the Moorefield Road my father tellin me
D        Am       G  D
Of the Corbally eviction back in 1953
C       D      D       Em
The story of Clongorey, the hunger and despair
G       Em        C     D
Gone but not forgotten in the history of Kildar

🎸 Verse 4:
G         Em       C        D
To stand upon the Gibbet Rath I walked along the Plains
D           Am           G   D
By Donnelly’s Hollow heard the keening of the Curragh Wrens
C           D     D            Em
Black & Tans in The Barracks as young rebels crossed the fields
G              Em      C      D
From the back lanes and the boreens came Sheahans and O’Neills

🎸 Chorus:
    G      D       C        D
From Hawkfield and Kilbelin, Chinatown and Rosy’s Lane
F           Em         C      D
Scattered round the world we dreamt of coming home again
     G     C   G      G     D   C
From the Rocks of Sydney Harbour, the Bronx and Birmingham
    Am        D       Am        D7
To the Sandy Hills, the Seven Springs, The waters of the Fen

🎸 Verse 5:
G          Em      C     D
Here comes Darky Prendergast and Mrs Charlie Weld
D           Am        G       D
The Halfords and The Edderys, the Brabazons and the Bells
C          D      D         Em
The Owners and The Trainers, stallions and brood mares
 G         Em        C      D
Fillies, colts and yearlings on the gallops of Kildare

🎸 Verse 6:
  G         Em      C        D
The Roo, The Goo and Gandy, every nickname brings a smile
   D        Am       G        D
Tell Fid, Conks and Corney I’ll be home in a little while
C    D       D       Em         G
As the sun goes down behind the Town we’ll gather on the strand
G            Em     C         D
Dance to Jimmy Dunny’s orchestra, Tom Wilmot’s Ceili band

🎸 Chorus:
    G      D       C        D
From Hawkfield and Kilbelin, Chinatown and Rosy’s Lane
F           Em         C      D
Scattered round the world we dreamt of coming home again
     G     C   G      G     D   C
From the Rocks of Sydney Harbour, the Bronx and Birmingham
    Am        D       Am        D7
To the Sandy Hills, the Seven Springs, The waters of the Fen