Biography:
Karan Casey (b. 1969 in Ballyduff Lower, County Waterford, Ireland) is an Irish folk singer and jazz singer, and a former member of the Irish band Solas.
Her family encouraged her to sing in the house, in a church choir and at school. At Waterford Regional Technical College she studied piano then took music at University College Dublin in 1987. Having learned to copy Ella Fitzgerald's scat singing, she performed in a Dublin bistro several nights per week while still a student.
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Other songs:
- Ae Fond Kiss
- Another Day
- Bright Winters Day
- Distant Shore
- Dunlavin Green
- Eppie Morrie
- Erins Lovely Home
- Freedom Song
- I Once Loved A Lass
- Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye
- Just A Note
- Lady Mary Anne
- Love Is Pleasing
- Martinmas Time
- Mother Earths Revenge
- One I Love
- Quiet Of The Night
- Roger The Miller
- Shamrock Shore
- She Is Like The Swallow
- Snows They Melt The Soonest
- Song Of Lies
- The Ballad Of Tim Evans
- The Cradle Song
- The Creggan White Hare
- The Curra Road
- The Four Loom Weaver
- The Keg Of Brandy
- The Kings Shilling
- The Liberty Tree
- The Loony Moon
- The Seasons
- The Silkie Song
- The Song Of The Seal
- The Song Of Wandering Aengus
- The World Looks Away
- The Yellow Furze
- This Time Will Pass
- Town Of Athlone
- Waiting For The Snow
- Weary Of Lying Alone
- When Will We All Be Free
- Where Are You Tonight I Wonder
- Who Put The Blood
- You Brought Me Up
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[Intro]
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[Verse]
C
Oh, my love has left me with bairns twa
G
And that's the last of him I ever saw
C
He joined the army and marched to war
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He took the shilling, he took the shilling and he's off to war
[Chorus]
Am7
Come, laddies, come, hear the cannon roar
G D G
Take the king's shilling and you're off to war
[Verse]
C
Well, did he look as he marched along
G
With his kilt and sporran and his musket gun?
C
Ladies tipped him as he marched along
Am7 C G
He sailed out by, he sailed out by the Broomielaw
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C
Pipes did play as he marched along
G
And the soldiers sang out a battle song
C
"March on, march on," cried the captain gay
Am7 C G
For king and country, for king and country we will fight today
[Chorus]
Am7
Come, laddies, come, hear the cannon roar
G D G
Take the king's shilling and you're off to war
[Instrumental]
G C G C Am7 C G
[Verse]
C
Well, the battle rattled to the sound of guns
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And the bayonets flashed in the morning sun
C
The drums did beat and the cannon roared
Am7 C G
And the shilling didn't seem, oh, the shilling didn't seem much worth the war
[Chorus]
Am7
Come, laddies, come, hear the cannon roar
G D G
Take the king's shilling and you're off to war
[Verse]
C
Well, the men they fought and the men did fall
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Cut down by bayonet and musket ball
C
Many of these brave young men
Am7 C G
Would never fight for, would never fight for the king again
[Chorus]
Am7
Come, laddies, come, hear the cannon roar
G D G
Take the king's shilling and you're off to war
[Chorus]
Am7
Come, laddies, come, hear the cannon roar
G D G
Take the king's shilling and you'll die in war
[Chorus]
Am7
Come, laddies, come, hear the cannon roar
G D G
Take the king's shilling and you'll die in war
C G
Die in war
C G
You'll die in war
G
[Verse]
C
Oh, my love has left me with bairns twa
G
And that's the last of him I ever saw
C
He joined the army and marched to war
Am7 C G
He took the shilling, he took the shilling and he's off to war
[Chorus]
Am7
Come, laddies, come, hear the cannon roar
G D G
Take the king's shilling and you're off to war
[Verse]
C
Well, did he look as he marched along
G
With his kilt and sporran and his musket gun?
C
Ladies tipped him as he marched along
Am7 C G
He sailed out by, he sailed out by the Broomielaw
[Verse]
C
Pipes did play as he marched along
G
And the soldiers sang out a battle song
C
"March on, march on," cried the captain gay
Am7 C G
For king and country, for king and country we will fight today
[Chorus]
Am7
Come, laddies, come, hear the cannon roar
G D G
Take the king's shilling and you're off to war
[Instrumental]
G C G C Am7 C G
[Verse]
C
Well, the battle rattled to the sound of guns
G
And the bayonets flashed in the morning sun
C
The drums did beat and the cannon roared
Am7 C G
And the shilling didn't seem, oh, the shilling didn't seem much worth the war
[Chorus]
Am7
Come, laddies, come, hear the cannon roar
G D G
Take the king's shilling and you're off to war
[Verse]
C
Well, the men they fought and the men did fall
G
Cut down by bayonet and musket ball
C
Many of these brave young men
Am7 C G
Would never fight for, would never fight for the king again
[Chorus]
Am7
Come, laddies, come, hear the cannon roar
G D G
Take the king's shilling and you're off to war
[Chorus]
Am7
Come, laddies, come, hear the cannon roar
G D G
Take the king's shilling and you'll die in war
[Chorus]
Am7
Come, laddies, come, hear the cannon roar
G D G
Take the king's shilling and you'll die in war
C G
Die in war
C G
You'll die in war
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