Christy Moore - Back Home In Derry Acoustic Live Chords

[Chorus]
C        G       Am         G            Am
Oh oh oh oh oh I wish I was back home in Derry
C        G       Am         G            Am
Oh oh oh oh oh I wish I was back home in Derry

[Verse 1]
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In eighteen-o-three we sailed out to sea
G            D             Am
Out from the sweet town of Derry
Am                         C
For Australia bound, if we didn't all drown
G                D          Am
The marks of our fetters we carried
D                               C
In our rusty iron chains we cried for our weans
D                      Em
Our good women we left in sorrow
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As the main sails unfurled, our curses we hurled
       G           D           Am
On the English and thoughts of tomorrow

[Verse 2]
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At the mouth of the Foyle, bade farewell to the soil
   G          D             Am
As down below decks we were lying
Am                        C
O'Doherty screamed, woken out of a dream
     G         D           Am
By a vision of bold Robert dying
D                             C
The sun burnt cruel as we dished out the gruel
D                            Em
Dan O'Conner was down with a fever
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Sixty rebels today, bound for Botany Bay
    G         D           Am
How many will reach their receiver

[Chorus]
C        G       Am         G            Am
Oh oh oh oh oh I wish I was back home in Derry
C        G       Am         G            Am
Oh oh oh oh oh I wish I was back home in Derry

[Verse 3]
 Am                           C
I cursed them to hell as our bow fought the swell,
G            D             Am
Our ship danced like a moth in the firelight,
Am                        C
White horses rode high as the devil passed by,
     G         D           Am
Taking souls to Hades by twilight,
D                             C
Five weeks out to sea, we were now forty-three
D                            Em
We buried our comrades each morning
Am                            C
In our own slime we were lost in the time
    G         D           Am
Endless night without dawning

[Chorus]
C        G       Am         G            Am
Oh oh oh oh oh I wish I was back home in Derry
C        G       Am         G            Am
Oh oh oh oh oh I wish I was back home in Derry

[Verse 4]
Am                    C
Van Diemen's Land is a hell for a man
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To end out his whole life in slavery
Am                        C
Where the climate is raw and a gun makes the law
     G         D           Am
Neither wind nor rain care for bravery
D                             C
Twenty years have gone by, I have ended my bond
D                            Em
My comrades' ghosts walk beside me
Am                            C
A rebel I came, I'm still the same
    G         D           Am
On the cold winds of night you will find me

[Outro]
C        G       Am         G            Am
Oh oh oh oh oh I wish I was back home in Derry
C        G       Am         G            Am
Oh oh oh oh oh I wish I was back home in Derry