Intro:6/8| Dm | C | C | Dm | Dm |Dm C Dm
1. Last night as I lay drea-ming of plea-sant days gone by
Dm C G
My mind being bent on ramb-ling to Ire-land I did fly
Dm C G
I stepped on board a vis-ion and I fol-lowed with the wind
Dm C Dm
Till next I came to an-chor at the cross in Spa-ncil Hill
Dm C Dm
2. It being on the twen-ty third of June the day be-fore the fair
Dm C G
When lre-land's sons and daught-ers and friends as-sem-bled there
Dm C G
The young the old the brave and the bold came their du-ty to ful-fil
Dm C Dm
At the par-ish church in Cloo-ney a mile from Span-cil Hill
Dm C Dm
3. I went to see me neigh-bours to see what they might say
Dm C G
The old ones were all dead and gone the young one's tur-ning grey
Dm C G
But I met the tail-or Qui-gley he's as bold as ev-er still
Dm C Dm
And he used to make me britch-es when I lived in Span-cil Hill
Instr:| Dm | C | C | Dm | Dm | Dm | C | G |
| Dm | Dm | C | G | Dm | C | C | Dm | Dm |Dm C Dm
4. I paid a fly-ing vis-it to my first and on-ly love
Dm C G
She's as white as an-y lil-ly gent-le as a dove
Dm C G
And she threw her arms a-round me say-ing "John-ny I love you still”
Dm C Dm
Ah she's Nel the far-mers daugh-ter and the pride of Span-cil Hill
Dm C Dm
5. I dreamt I held and kissed her as in the days of yore
Dm C G
"Ah John-ny you're on-ly jok-in’ as ma-ny’s the time be-fore"
Dm C G
Then the cock he crew in the mor-ning he crew both loud and shrill
Dm C Dm | C | C | Dm |
I a-woke in Cal-i-for-nia ma-ny miles from Span-cil Hill
Fingers 1, 2, 3, 4 : Notes played
A column of 1's: Barre 1st finger over marked strings
Unmarked strings: Play open
x: Don't play string
Right-Handed Chord TabsDm C G
e |-1-|---|---| e |---|---|---| e |---|---|-3-|
B |---|---|-3-| B |-1-|---|---| B |---|---|---|
G |---|-2-|---| G |---|---|---| G |---|---|---|
D |---|---|---| D |---|-2-|---| D |---|---|---|
A |---|---|---|x A |---|---|-3-| A |---|-1-|---|
E |---|---|---|x E |---|---|---|x E |---|---|-2-|
Frets 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3Left-Handed Chord TabsDm C G
|---|---|-1-| e |---|---|---| e |-3-|---|---| e
|-3-|---|---| B |---|---|-1-| B |---|---|---| B
|---|-2-|---| G |---|---|---| G |---|---|---| G
|---|---|---| D |---|-2-|---| D |---|---|---| D
x|---|---|---| A |-3-|---|---| A |---|-1-|---| A
x|---|---|---| E x|---|---|---| E |-2-|---|---| E
3 2 1 3 2 1 3 2 1 Frets
Song Key: This version of the song is in the key of Dm which is the relative minor of F major - 1 flat (B♭)
6/8 time: This means 6 eighth-note/quaver beats per bar, therefore the count is:
|1 2 3 4 5 6 | = |♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ | or |♩. ♩. | = | 123 223| etc. etc.
Tempo: approx. 160 bpm. If you find this a little too fast on the metronome, you can set it at approx. 54 bpm where each click falls on every third beat (red notes)
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