The unquiet grave
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G C
D D7
1. The wind does blow today, my love,
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D - D7
a few
small drops of rain,
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never
had I had but one truelove,
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in
cold grave she is lain.
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C D
D7
2. I'll do as much for my true love
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as
any young man may,
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I'll sit and mourn all on her
grave
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at
twelve months and a day.
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D D7
3. The twelve months and the day been gone,
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a
voice spoke from the deep,
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“Who is it, sits all on my
grave,
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and
will not let me sleep ?”
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C D D7
4. “It's I, it is I thine own true love,
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who
sits upon your grave,
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for I
crave one kiss from your sweet lips,
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G
and
that is all I see.”
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5. “You crave one kiss from my clay cold lips,
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but
my breath is earthy strong,
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had
you one kiss from my clay cold lips,
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your
time would not be long.”
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D7
6. “My time be long my time be short,
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- D7
tomorrow
or today,
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may God
in heaven have all my soul,
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but
I'll kiss your lips of clay.”
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7. “See down in yonder garden green,
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love,
where we used to walk
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the
sweetest flower that ever grew
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is withered
to the stalk.”
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8. “The stalk is withered dry, my love,
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- D7
so will our hearts
decay.
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So make yourself content my
love,
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till
death calls you away.”
+ instrumental = verse 8 .... (The Dubliners)