Curragh of Kildare    (video)

 

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1. The winter it has passed and the summer's come at last,

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    and the birds they are singing in the trees.

                    G                        C           F                  G

    And their little hearts are glad, but mine is very sad,

                 C               F                     G

    for my true love is far away from me.

 

            C                                         F                        G

2. The rose upon the briar by the water's running clear

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    gives joy to the linnet and the bee.

              G                        C                 F                       G

    Their little hearts are blessed, but mine, it’s not addressed,

                 C               F                  G

    for my true love is absent from me.

 

                G7                  C               F                   G

And it’s straight I will repair to the Curragh of Kildare,

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for it's there I'll find tidings of my dear.

 

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3. All you that are in love and cannot it remove,

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    I pity the pains that you endure.

                G                           C                     F                        G

    For experience lets me know that your hearts are full of woe,

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    and a woe that no mortal can endure.

 

+ CHORUS (2x)

 

    (Christy Moore)