Biography:
The Wolfe Tones is an Irish rebel music band that incorporates elements of Irish traditional music. Formed in 1963, their most recognizable line-up that lasted for nearly 37 years until January 2001 was brothers Brian Warfield and Derek Warfield, and Noel Nagle, and Tommy Byrne. The band take its name from the Irish rebel and patriot Theobald Wolfe Tone, one of the leaders of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, with the double entendre of a wolf tone – a spurious sound that can affect instruments of the violin family.
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Other songs:
- A Nation Once Again
- A Row In The Town Erin Go Bragh
- Admiral William Brown
- Big Strong Man
- Boston Rose
- Broad Black Brimmer
- Celtic Symphony
- Come Out Ye Black And Tans
- Far Away In Australia
- Finnegans Wake
- God Save Ireland
- Grace
- Joe Mc Donnell
- Joe Mcdonnell
- Let The People Sing
- On The One Road
- Oro Se Do Bheatha Bhaile
- Quare Things In Dublin
- Rifles Of The Ira
- Rock On Rockall
- Sean South
- Sean South From Garryowen
- Snipers Promise
- Some Say The Devil Is Dead
- Sunday Bloody Sunday
- The Big Strong Man
- The Boys Of The Old Brigade
- The Fields Of Athenry
- The Men Behind The Wire
- The Streets Of New York
- The Wearing Of The Green
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The gmaj7 should be played as 2-0-0-0-0-3
[Verse 1]
G Gmaj7 Em
By a lonely prison wall,
C G D
I heard a young girl calling:
G C D
"Michael, they have taken you away,
G C
For you stole Trevelyn's corn,
G D
So the young might see the morn,
D G C G
Now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay."
[Chorus]
G C G Gmaj7 Em
Low lie the fields of Athenrye,
G D
Where once we watched the small free birds fly.
G C
Our love was on the wing,
G D
We had dreams and songs to sing,
D C G
It's so lonely 'round the fields of Athenrye.
[Verse 2]
G Gmaj7 Em
By a lonely prison wall,
C G D
I heard a young man calling:
G C D
"Nothing matters, Mary, when you're free,
G C
Against the famine and the crown,
G D
I rebelled, they cut me down,
D C G
Now you must raise our child with dignity."
[Chorus]
G C G Gmaj7 Em
Low lie the fields of Athenrye,
G D
Where once we watched the small free birds fly.
G C
Our love was on the wing,
G D
We had dreams and songs to sing,
D C G
It's so lonely 'round the fields of Athenrye.
[Verse 3]
G Gmaj7 Em
By a lonely harbour wall,
C G D
She watched the last star falling.
G C D
As the prison ship sailed out against the sky.
G C
For she lives in hope and prays,
G D
For her love in Botany Bay,
D C G
It's so lonely, 'round the fields of Athenrye.
[Chorus]
G C G Gmaj7 Em
Low lie the fields of Athenrye,
G D
Where once we watched the small free birds fly.
G C
Our love was on the wing,
G D
We had dreams and songs to sing,
D C G
It's so lonely 'round the fields of Athenrye.
[Verse 1]
G Gmaj7 Em
By a lonely prison wall,
C G D
I heard a young girl calling:
G C D
"Michael, they have taken you away,
G C
For you stole Trevelyn's corn,
G D
So the young might see the morn,
D G C G
Now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay."
[Chorus]
G C G Gmaj7 Em
Low lie the fields of Athenrye,
G D
Where once we watched the small free birds fly.
G C
Our love was on the wing,
G D
We had dreams and songs to sing,
D C G
It's so lonely 'round the fields of Athenrye.
[Verse 2]
G Gmaj7 Em
By a lonely prison wall,
C G D
I heard a young man calling:
G C D
"Nothing matters, Mary, when you're free,
G C
Against the famine and the crown,
G D
I rebelled, they cut me down,
D C G
Now you must raise our child with dignity."
[Chorus]
G C G Gmaj7 Em
Low lie the fields of Athenrye,
G D
Where once we watched the small free birds fly.
G C
Our love was on the wing,
G D
We had dreams and songs to sing,
D C G
It's so lonely 'round the fields of Athenrye.
[Verse 3]
G Gmaj7 Em
By a lonely harbour wall,
C G D
She watched the last star falling.
G C D
As the prison ship sailed out against the sky.
G C
For she lives in hope and prays,
G D
For her love in Botany Bay,
D C G
It's so lonely, 'round the fields of Athenrye.
[Chorus]
G C G Gmaj7 Em
Low lie the fields of Athenrye,
G D
Where once we watched the small free birds fly.
G C
Our love was on the wing,
G D
We had dreams and songs to sing,
D C G
It's so lonely 'round the fields of Athenrye.
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