D
She lived beside the Anner,
GD
At the foot of Slievna-man,
GABm
A gentle peasant girl,
GA
With mild eyes like the dawn;
DGD
Her lips were dewy rosebuds;
GABm
Her teeth of pearls rare;
GF#m
And a snow-drift 'neath a beechen bough
GAD
Her neck and nut-brown hair
[Verse 2]
D
How pleasant was to meet her
GD
On Sunday when the bell
GABm
Was filling with its mellow tone
GA
Lone wood and grassy dell,
DGD
And when at eve young maidens
GABm
Strayed the river bank along,
GF#m
The widow's brown-haired daughter,
GAD
Was loveliest of the throng
[Chorus]
AF#m
O brave, brave Irish girls-
GD
We well may call you brave!-
BmF#m
Sure the least of all your perils
GA
Is the stormy ocean wave,
AF#m
When you leave our quiet valleys,
GD
And cross the Atlantic's foam
BmF#m
To hoard your hard-won earnings,
BmAD
For the helpless ones at home.
[Verse 3]
D
"Write word to my own dear mother,
GD
Say we'll meet with God above;
GABm
And tell my little brothers,
GA
I send them all my love;
DGD
May the angels ever guide them
GABm
Is their dying sister's prayer"-
GF#m
And folded in a letter
GAD
Was a braid of nut-brown hair
[Verse 4]
D
Ah cold and well-nigh callous,
GD
This weary heart has grown,
GABm
For thy helpless fate, dear Ireland
GA
And for sorrows of my own
DGD
Yet a tear, my eye will moisten
GABm
When by Anner side I stray,
GF#m
For the lily of the mountain foot,
GAD
That withered far away
[Chorus]
AF#m
O brave, brave Irish girls-
GD
We well may call you brave!-
BmF#m
Sure the least of all your perils
GA
Is the stormy ocean wave,
AF#m
When you leave our quiet valleys,
GD
And cross the Atlantic's foam
BmF#m
To hoard your hard-won earnings,
BmAD
For the helpless ones at home.