Date: 2/7/97; 11:22:32 AM

From: terry davio 

Subject: Garth Brooks: Ireland



Intro: A, A, A, A



(A)                      A            A      

They say Mother Earth is breathing

(A)                           A       A

With each wave that finds the shore

(A)                   A               A

Her soul rises in the evening

(A)                    A              A

For to open twilight's doors

(A)      F#m              A           A

Her eyes are the stars in heaven

(A)                      D            D

Watching o'er us all the while

(D)                    A              E

And her heart it is in Ireland

(E)                     A*

Deep within the Emerald Isle



Verse 2

We were forty against hundreds,

In someone else's bloody war.

We know not why we're fighting,

Or what we're dying for.

They will storm us in the morning,

As the sunlight turns the sky.

Death is waiting for it's dance now,

Fate has sentenced us to die.



Chorus

F#m      D           A

Ireland, I am coming home!

      D                A      

I can see your rolling fields of green

    F#m            E 

And fences made of stone.

     F#m      A              D       A               

I am reaching out, won't you take my hand

           F#m   D E  A

I'm coming home, I-re-land!



Verse

Oh the captain he lay bleeding

And I can hear him calling me

These men are yours now for the leading

Show them to their destiny

And as I looked up all around me

I see the ragged tired and torn

I tell them to make ready

Cause we're not waiting for the morn.



Chorus



Verse



Now the fog is deep and heavy

As we forge the dark and fear

We can hear their horses breathing

As in silence we draw near

And there are no words to be spoken

Just a look to say goodbye

I draw a breath and night is broken

As I scream our battle cry



Chorus



(A)      F#m   D E  A           

Yes I am home, I-re-land!