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               C                             G        Am
It seemed like everything we heard and hoped might be true
         C                                      Am  F
We got a ride right away and she took us to the dunes

    Am        G           C 
And we fell asleep to the sounds of a carnival
       Am      G                C
From a village further down the beach
   Am               G            C           Am
We woke up the next morning on a bed of tiny flowers,
           C                G                C
Packed the tent and went to get somethin' to eat

            Am                               C
We bought a cheap jar of peanut butter and a loaf of fresh white bread,
        Am                                    F                   G
We made sandwiches on the beach; life doesn't get any better than this


   C                               G              Am
We walked in for free to the first castle that we found
       C                        G            Am F
It was empty, it was late, it became our campground
       Am        G           C           F
And we spotted a tent and we met another camper
       Am      G       C
And he told us his sad story--
     Am          G           C            F             Am      G      C
Well he had been dumped by a girl that he loved, but he told us not to worry


        Am                                      C
You can camp anywhere, no one's gonna care; why would they?
          Am 
"It's not like this at home," we told him, "you know"
             F             G
He said your home's so far away


C                                 G        Am
We went west all the way 'til the land ran out
         C                        G                Am  F
We slept at an empty house in the middle of a tiny town
         Am       G              C               F        Am      G               C
We met a man at a crossroads who said it was his dream to someday come to Bloomington
Am                G             C           F              Am          G          C
We thought it was funny because for you and me, it was our dream to be here in Ireland


Am
He was a big fan of John Melloncamp; 
   C
we told him everything we knew about him
   Am
We invited him to come and stay at our house; 
        F                         G
when we got to our stop he didn't want us to get out
              C                                   F  Am


We stayed the night at the house of a guy from Albany
       C                                        Am F
He was glad to meet Americans; he made us spaghetti


    Am       G       C             F             Am         G           C
And we met a man who said he was a doctor and he took us on some of his house calls
   Am            G                 C         F  
He taught us the best way to get a donkey to come to you 
          Am           G            C
is not to pay them any attention at all


      Am                                              C
And I crawled to the edge and peeked over my head and looked down to the sea
       Am                                       F                  G
It was two thousand feet to the water below; it looked so blue, it looked so deep


          C            F                Am          C
And don't ever let 'em tell you that it rains in Ireland
C                     F               G                  C
Well if they tell you that you can be sure they've never been
           C             F               Am               C
'Cause the sun is always shinin' and the hills are always green
        C                 F           G            C
And the people are always smilin' and offerin' you drinks


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     C                                          Am
We'd set up our tent on the cliffs right by the sea
       C                                      Am  F
Almost every night and the waves rocked us to sleep


  Am           G             C           F
A postman from Wales and his friend from England
          Am           G           C
Bought us fries at the westernmost pub
Am          G            C           F
We sat with them and two others we'd met
           Am          G           C
And we all watched the postman get drunk


       Am                                 C
And at first the Burren might seem like a waste land of broken stones
Am                                          F                 G
Look in the cracks and you'll see there's a secret there that grows
    C                  G                Am
And Galway City really feels a lot like home
       C            G                Am F
We went through Connemara and up to Sligo


    Am            G                  C   F
And at the Slieve League we couldn't see anything;
      Am        G              C
We decided that we should turn back
    Am          G             C                 F
The mist was so thick that we couldn't find our feet
        Am               G         C
And the trail was called Deadman's Pass


Am                                                 C
On one side it was three thousand feet down to the ocean
Am
The other was two thousand feet to the ground
    F                   G
And anyway our time was running out


    C                         G           Am
And we crossed the country in less than a day
    C                   G                 Am   F
Our last ride to Dublin asked us the same things


     Am          G       C        F
They asked if we had any kin from Ireland;
          Am             G       C
They were surprised when we said no
       Am            G                C              F
When I said I didn't drink and hadn't tried Guinness yet
              Am            G            C
They were the first ones to say, "way to go"


    Am                           C
And as our ferry was leaving the Emerald Isle behind
        Am                       F                G
We were already making our plans to come back sometime


         C             F                Am          C
And don't ever let 'em tell you that it rains in Ireland
     C                F               G                  C
Well if they tell you that you can be sure they've never been
           C             F               Am               C
'Cause the sun is always shinin' and the hills are always green
    C                 F           G            C
And people are always smilin' and offerin' you drinks