Green Island

    F      C           Am        
The island lies like a leaf upon 
    F
the sea
      F      C               Am  
Green island like a leaf new 
            F
fallen from the tree
G              Am
Green turns to gold
   Dm              C              
As morning breezes gently shake 
  G
the barley
Em          G      Am
Bending the yellow corn
G              Am
Green turns to gold,
        Dm             C    
There´s purple shadows on the 
          G
distant mountains
        Em         G      Am
And the sun in the yellow corn


[Verse 2]

     F             C              
They came in their longships from 
Am               F
lands beyond the sea
     F             C               
They came in their longships, they 
Am               F
saw the land was green
G           Am
Wind in the barley,
Dm               C              
Trout and salmon leaping in the 
G
rivers
Em         G      Am
Sun in the yellow corn
G        Am
Leaping a shore
Continúa después del anuncio
     Dm                    C      
They slaughtered those who 
         G
laboured in the barley
Em            G         Am
Scything them down like corn


[Verse 3]

    F         C               Am 
The longships sailed away and new
          F
 invaders came
     F            C              
With long bow and lance bringing 
Am                 F
death in England´s name
     G              Am
With sword and with mace
          Dm                  C   
They went reaping through the 
      G
fields of barley
     Em            G      Am
They plundered the yellow corn
G             Am
Crop followed crop
    Dm               C            
And prospered in the killing 
     G
fields of barley
       Em         G         Am
In the harvest of new young corn


[Verse 4]

F        C                  Am  
Marching down the years the men 
            F
of war they came
     F       C                  
With bombs, assassin´s bullets, 
Am          F
c.s gas and guns
G               Am
Ghosts from the past
    Dm              C         
Are chasing shadows through the 
            G
fields of barley
Em            G      Am
Hiding in the yellow corn
G            Am
Nine hundred years
        Dm                C       
They´ve tried to trap the wind 
             G
that shakes the barley
        Em         G      Am
And the sun in the yellow corn


[Verse 5]

    F      C           Am        
The island lies like a leaf upon 
    F
the sea
      F      C               Am  
Green island like a leaf new 
            F
fallen from the tree
G              Am
Green turns to gold
   Dm              C              
As morning breezes gently shake 
  G
the barley
Em          G      Am
Bending the yellow corn
G           Am
No force on earth
    Dm            C               
Can ever trap the wind that shakes
     G
 the barley
       Em         G      Am
Or the sun in the yellow corn