Wolfe Tones – Sean South From Garryowen chords

Sean South of Garryowen



       G                                 C         D          GIt was on a dreary new year's eve as the shades of night came down,
                 C     G          Em     C      D  A lorry load of volunteers approched the border town,
          G               C        G    Em        C     DThere was men from Dublin and from Cork,Fermanagh and Tyrone,
           G                        C               D    GAnd their leader was a Limerick man Sean South from Garryowen

G                                      C        D     GAnd as they moved along the streets up to the barrack door,
                        C         G         Em        C      DThey scorned the danger they might face,the fate that lay in store,
          G                C    G    Em           C     DThey were fighting for old Ireland,to claim their very own,
         G                                    C      D    GAnd the foremost of that gallant band was South from Garryowen.

G                                           C          D           GBut the sergent foiled their daring plan,he spied them through the door,
                           C        G       Em     C  DThen the Sten guns and the rifles a hail of death did pour,
      G             C         G       Em           C      DAnd when that auful night was past,two men lay as cold as stone,
          G                            C        D     GThere was one from near the border,and one from Garryowen.

G                                            C        D       GNo more he'll hear the seagull cry o're the murmuring Shannon tide,
                      C         G    Em         C  G   DFor he fell beneath a Northern sky,brave Hanlon by his side,
          G                 C       G       Em       C          DThey have gone to join that gallant band of Plunkett Pearse and Tone,
  G                           C          D    GA martyr for old Ireland,Sean South from Garryowen