Intro: Riff 1 Riff 2

Riff 1
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Riff 2
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Em                      C
I was twenty four years old
        D                    Em
When I met the woman I would call my own
       Em                   C     G
Twenty two grand kids now growing old
        C               D       Em
In the house that your brother brought ya

(Riff 1)

        Em                   C
On the summer day when I proposed
   D                           Em
I made that wedding ring from dentist gold
      Em                        C           G
And I asked her father but her daddy said, "No
 C         D        Em
You can't marry my daughter"

G              C9    G
She and I went on the run
D                   C9 G
Don't care about religion
G                    C9    G
I'm gonna marry the woman I love
C9           D       Em
Down by the Wexford border
G             C9   G
She was Nancy Mulligan
    D              C9  G
And I was William Sheeran
     G                    C9     G
She took my name and then we were one
C9           D       Em
Down by the Wexford border

(Riff 1) (Riff 2)

        Em                                    C
Well, I met her at Guy's in the second world war
     D                    Em
And she was working on a soldier's ward
       Em              C        G
Never had I seen such beauty before
     C      D     Em
The moment that I saw her

 Em                  C
Nancy was my yellow rose
    D                      Em
And we got married wearing borrowed clothes
   Em                      C      G
We got eight children now growing old
 C        D          Em
Five sons and three daughters

G              C9    G
She and I went on the run
D                   C9 G
Don't care about religion
G                    C9    G
I'm gonna marry the woman I love
C9           D       Em
Down by the Wexford border
G             C9   G
She was Nancy Mulligan
    D              C9  G
And I was William Sheeran
     G                    C9     G
She took my name and then we were one
C9           D       Em
Down by the Wexford border

( G C9 G D )
( G C9 G D G )

          Em                                 C
From her snow white streak in her jet black hair
      D                     Em
Over sixty years I've been loving her
          Em                      C       G
Now we're sat by the fire, in our old armchairs
          C    D   Em
You know Nancy I adore ya

        Em                         C
From a farm boy born near Belfast town
   D                       Em
I never worried about the king and crown
         Em                      C        G
Cause I found my heart upon the southern ground
            C          D   Em
There's no difference, I assure ya

G              C9    G
She and I went on the run
D                   C9 G
Don't care about religion
G                    C9    G
I'm gonna marry the woman I love
C9           D       Em
Down by the Wexford border
G             C9   G
She was Nancy Mulligan
    D              C9  G
And I was William Sheeran
     G                    C9     G
She took my name and then we were one
C9           D       Em
Down by the Wexford border

( G C9 G D ) ( G C9 G D G ) x2