Oh the summer time is coming and the leaves are sweetly blooming

                F     G            Am                 Dm                       F

and the wild mountain thyme grows around the blooming heather

             C     F      C

will you go lassie go

              F          Em

and we’ll all go together

              F         G           Am

to pluck wild mountain thyme

       Dm                          F

all around the blooming heather

             C    F      C

will you go lassie go

          C            F          C                   F                Em

I will build my love a bower near yon cool crystal fountain

       F      G       Am             Dm                  F

and on it i will place all the flowers of the mountain

             C     F       C

Will you go lassie go etc etc ………..

           C           F            C                   F              Em

If my true love she were gone,I would surely find another

           F        G             Am             Dm                           F

Where wild mountain thyme grows around the blooming heather

             C     F     C

Will you go lassie go etc…………..

CHORUS:

G

I’ll tell me ma when I go home

        D                            G

The boys won’t leave the girls alone

G         

They pulled my hair and stole my comb

       D                     G

But that’s alright ’till I go home

G                         C

She is handsome she is pretty

G                          D

She is the belle of Belfast City

G                        C

She is a courtin’ one two three

G                 D                G

Please won’t you tell me who is she

G

Albert Mooney says he loves her

D                        G

All the boys are fightin’ for her

           G                 

They’re up at the door and they’re ringing the bell

             D                          G

Sayin’ “Hello my true love, are you well ?”

G                          C

Out she comes as white as snow

G                                   D

Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes

G                                C

Old Johnny Morrissey says she’ll die

           G                   D                     G

If she dosen’t get the fella with the rovin eye

REPEAT CHORUS

G     

Let the wind and the rain and the hail blow high

             D                            G

And the snow come tumbling from the sky

G

She’s as sweet as apple pie

       D                              G

And she’ll get her own lad bye and bye

G                        C

When she gets a lad of her own

       G                                 D

She won’t tell her ma when she goes home

G                      C

Let them all come as they will

             G        D         G

For it’s Albert Mooney she loves still

REPEAT CHORUS

Oh Danny Boy, the pipes the pipes are calling

                      C           Am                       Dm G

From glen to glen and down the mountain side

                      C            C7                        F

The summer’s gone and all the leaves are falling

                  C             F        G         C

‘Tis you ’tis you must go and I must bide

 G                     C                F           G         C Am F

But come you back when summer’s in the meadow

G       E           Am      F                  C             Dm G

Or when the valley’s hushed and white with snow

                C  E      Am  F            C  Am  F

‘Tis I’ll be here in sunshine or in shadow

                C      Am         Dm     G        C 

Oh Danny Boy, oh Danny Boy I love you so

                       C             C7                      F

And when you come, and all the leaves are dying

                  C         Am                   Dm  G

And I am dead, as dead I well may be

                         C           C7                     F   Dm

You’ll come and find the place where I am lying

                       C          F    G           C

And stand and say an Ave there for me

  G             C                  F            G       C      Am  F

And I will hear, though soft you tread above me

G        E      Am          F           C      Dm  G

And in my grave will warmer, safer be

                    C  E        Am         F          C    Am   F

For you will kneel and tell me that you love me

               C        Am                Dm     G   C F C

And I will lie in peace until you come to me

NOTE:  There are quite a few chords in this version because they give it a beautiful melodic feel which I think lifts the song.  If they are proving too many to handle, especially early on, then I suggest you just use the main chords of CF and G at first and then gradually add some or all of the others as you begin to feel more comfortable with it.  If you need any advice on it e-mail me !  Best of luck with it.

Come over the hill my bonnie Irish girl

          C            Am            F   EM

Come over the hill to your darling

   F                      C                  Dm              F 

You’ll choose the road love and I’ll make the vow

        C              F     C        G  C

And I’ll be your true love forever

                  C             Am                Dm                F  G

CHORUS:   Red is the rose, that in yonder garden grows

                C               Am           F Em

                Fair is the Lily of the Valley

                 F       G       C                F               Am   G

                Clear is the water that flows from the Boyne

                      C              F   C           G C

                But my love is fairer than any

It was down by Killarney’s green woods that we strayed

The moon and the stars they were shining

And the moon cast it’s rays on her locks of golden hair

And she swore she’d be my love forever

CHORUS

It’s not for the parting with my sister Kate

It’s not for the grief of my mother

It’s all for the loss of my bonnie Irish girl

That my heart is breaking forever

CHORUS TWICE TO END

NOTE:  You can use either a G or an Em on the last word of the second line of both verse and chorus.  I have varied it here and played Em first few times and G later on just to show the variation.  I personally prefer the Em option but it is your own choice.

down to the valley so shady

he whistled and he sang till the green woods rang

and he won the heart of a lady

CHORUS:  Ah dee doo ah dee doo daw day

               ah dee doo ah dee day dee

              He whistled and he sang, till the green woods rang

             and he won the heart of a lady

she left her father’s castle walls

she left her own fond lover

she left her servants and her estate

to follow the gypsy rover

CHORUS

her father saddled up his fastest steed

and rode the wild woods over

and sought his daughter at great speed

and the whistling gypsy rover

CHORUS

he rode till he came to a castle fine

down by the river Clady

and there was music and there was wine

for the gypsy and his lady

“he is no gypsy, my father” she said

“but lord of these lands all over

and I will stay ’till my dying day

with my whistling gypsy rover