Biography:
The Chieftains are a Grammy winning Irish musical group founded in 1962 (Dublin, Ireland), known for performing and popularizing Irish traditional music.
The band has recorded many albums of instrumental Irish folk music, as well as multiple collaborations with popular musicians of many genres, including Country music, Galician traditional music, Cape Breton and Newfoundland music, and rock and roll. They have performed with Van Morrison, The Rolling Stones
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Red is the Rose
Nanci Griffith & the Chieftains
"An Irish Evening"
[Verse 1]
D Bm Em G
Come over the hills, my bonnie Irish lass
D Bm G A
Come over the hills to your darling
G D G Em
You choose the rose love, and I’ll make the vow
D G D G D
And I’ll be your true love forever
[Refrain]
D Bm Em G
Red is the rose that in yonder garden grows
D Bm G A
And fair is the lily of the valley
G D G Em
Clear is the water that flows from the Boyne
D G A7 D
But my love is fairer than any.
[Verse 2]
D Bm Em G
‘Twas down by Killarney’s green woods that we strayed
D Bm G A
When the moon and the stars they were shining
G D G Em
The moon shone its rays on her locks of golden hair
D G D G D
And she swore she’d be my love forever
[Refrain]
D Bm Em G
Red is the rose that in yonder garden grows
D Bm G A
And fair is the lily of the valley
G D G Em
Clear is the water that flows from the Boyne
D G A7 D
But my love is fairer than any.
[Verse 3]
D Bm Em G
It’s not for the parting of my sister Kate
D Bm G A
It’s not for the loss of my mother
G D G Em
It’s all for the loss of my bonnie Irish lass
D G A7 D
That is leaving old Ireland forever.
[Refrain]
D Bm Em G
Red is the rose that in yonder garden grows
D Bm G A
And fair is the lily of the valley
G D G Em
Clear is the water that flows from the Boyne
D G A7 D
But my love is fairer than any.
[Verse 4]
D Bm Em G
It’s not for the parting that my sister pains
D Bm G A
It’s not for the grief of my mother
G D G Em
‘Tis all for the loss of my bonnie Irish lass
D G A7 D
That my heart is breaking forever
[Refrain]
D Bm Em G
Red is the rose that in yonder garden grows
D Bm G A
And fair is the lily of the valley
G D G Em
Clear is the water that flows from the Boyne
D G A7 D
But my love is fairer than any.
Nanci Griffith & the Chieftains
"An Irish Evening"
[Verse 1]
D Bm Em G
Come over the hills, my bonnie Irish lass
D Bm G A
Come over the hills to your darling
G D G Em
You choose the rose love, and I’ll make the vow
D G D G D
And I’ll be your true love forever
[Refrain]
D Bm Em G
Red is the rose that in yonder garden grows
D Bm G A
And fair is the lily of the valley
G D G Em
Clear is the water that flows from the Boyne
D G A7 D
But my love is fairer than any.
[Verse 2]
D Bm Em G
‘Twas down by Killarney’s green woods that we strayed
D Bm G A
When the moon and the stars they were shining
G D G Em
The moon shone its rays on her locks of golden hair
D G D G D
And she swore she’d be my love forever
[Refrain]
D Bm Em G
Red is the rose that in yonder garden grows
D Bm G A
And fair is the lily of the valley
G D G Em
Clear is the water that flows from the Boyne
D G A7 D
But my love is fairer than any.
[Verse 3]
D Bm Em G
It’s not for the parting of my sister Kate
D Bm G A
It’s not for the loss of my mother
G D G Em
It’s all for the loss of my bonnie Irish lass
D G A7 D
That is leaving old Ireland forever.
[Refrain]
D Bm Em G
Red is the rose that in yonder garden grows
D Bm G A
And fair is the lily of the valley
G D G Em
Clear is the water that flows from the Boyne
D G A7 D
But my love is fairer than any.
[Verse 4]
D Bm Em G
It’s not for the parting that my sister pains
D Bm G A
It’s not for the grief of my mother
G D G Em
‘Tis all for the loss of my bonnie Irish lass
D G A7 D
That my heart is breaking forever
[Refrain]
D Bm Em G
Red is the rose that in yonder garden grows
D Bm G A
And fair is the lily of the valley
G D G Em
Clear is the water that flows from the Boyne
D G A7 D
But my love is fairer than any.
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