The Irish Stranger Chords & Lyrics by Andy M. Stewart
The Irish Stranger
guitar chords lyrics
abbed by Jack Dingler
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I've worked out these chords, according to the version sung
by Andy M Stewart
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Poor Irish Stranger
Circa 1850s Broadside
G C G Em
Pity the fate of a poor Irish stranger,
G D C G
That wanders so far from his home,
G D G C
That sighs for protection from want, woe, and danger,
G D C G
That knows not from which way for to roam.
F C G
Yet I'll never return to Hibernia's green bowers,
F C G
For tyranny tramples the sweetest of flowers,
F C G Em
That once gave me comfort in loneliest hours�
G D C G
Now they are gone I shall ne'er see them more.
With wonder I gazed on yon lofty building,
As in grandeur I rose from its lord,
But soon I beheld my fair garden yielding
The choicest of fruit for his foe.
But, where is my father's lone cottage of clay,
Wherein I' ve spent many a long day,
Alas ! has his lordship conniv'd it away ?
Yes, it is gone, I shall never see it more.
When nature was seen in the sloe bush and bramble,
All smiling in beautiful bloom,
Over the fields without danger, I often
Did ramble amidst their perfume ;
I have wranged through the woods where the gay feather'd
throng
Joyfully sung their loud echoing song�
These days then of summer passed sweetly along,
Now they're gone�I shall ne'er see them more !
When the sloe and the berries hung ripe on the bushes
I have gathered them off without harm�
I have gone to the field and shorn the green rushes,
Preparing for winter's cold storm !
Along with my friends telling tales of delight,
Beguiling the hours of the long winter's night,
Those days gave me pleasure�I could them invite ;
Now they're gone, I shall ne'er see them more.
Oh, Erin ! oh, Erin ! it grieves me to ponder
The wrongs of thy injurned isle !
Of thy sons may a thousand from home do wander
On shores far away an exile !
But give me the power to cross the main,
Calumbia might yield me some shelter from pain,
I am only lamenting whilst here I remain,
For the boys I shall ne'er see again.
