Rocky Road to Dublin

Rocky Road to Dublin: Chords

Intro:
DO#m     SI  DO#m

            DO#m
Well in the merry month of May 

from me home I started
                       SI
Left the girls of Tuam nearly broken hearted
               DO#m  
Saluted father dear kissed me darlin' mother
  
Drank a pint of beer, 
             SI
me grief and tears to smother
                     DO#m
Then off to reap the corn 

and leave where I was born
                            SI       
I cut a stout blackthorn to banish ghost and goblin
                       DO#m               
In a brand new pair of brogues 

I rattled o'er the bogs
                       SI
And frightened all the dogs 
       
on the rocky road to Dublin
                       DO#m
One, two, three, four, five

Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road
    SI                                      DO#m                                         
And all the ways to Dublin whack-fol-lol-de-ra

   DO#m
In Mullingar that night I rested limbs so weary
                          SI
Started by daylight, next mornin' light and airy
                   DO#m
Took a drop of the pure 

to keep my heart from sinkin'
                              SI
That's the Paddy's cure whene'er 

he's on for drinking
                  DO#m
To see the lasses smile laughing all the while

At my curious style, 
        SI
'twould set your heart a-bubblin'
                   DO#m
They ax'd if I was hired, 

the wages I required
                  SI
Till I was almost tired 

of the rocky road to Dublin
                       DO#m
One, two, three, four, five

Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road
    SI                                      DO#m
And all the ways to Dublin whack-fol-lol-de-ra

   DO#m                                  
In Dublin next arrived I thought it such a pity
                         SI
To be so soon deprived a view of that fine city
              DO#m
Then I took a stroll all among the quality
                                 SI
My bundle it was stole, all in a neat locality
                     DO#m
Something crossed my mind, then I looked behind
                                SI
No bundle could I find, upon my stick a wobblin'
                  DO#m
Enquirin' for the rogue, 

they said my Connaught brogue
               SI
Wasn't much in vogue on the rocky road to Dublin
                       DO#m
One, two, three, four, five

Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road
    SI                                      DO#m
And all the ways to Dublin whack-fol-lol-de-ra

     DO#m
From there I got away my spirits never failin'
                   SI      
Landed on the quay as the ship was sailin'
              DO#m
Captain at me roared, said that no room had he
                              SI
When I jumped aboard, a cabin found for Paddy
      DO#m
Down among the pigs, I played some funny rigs

Danced some hearty jigs, 
    SI
the water round me bubblin'
             DO#m
When off Holyhead, I wished myself was dead
                         SI
Or better far instead on the rocky road to Dublin
                       DO#m
One, two, three, four, five

Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road
    SI                                      DO#m
And all the ways to Dublin whack-fol-lol-de-ra

    DO#m
The boys of Liverpool when we safely landed
                SI
Called myself a fool, I could no longer stand it
DO#m
Blood began to boil, temper I was losin'
                              SI
Poor ould Erin's isle, they began abusin'
           DO#m
"Hurrah my soul, " sez I, my shillelagh I let fly
                          SI
Some Galway boys were by, saw I was a hobble in
            DO#m
Then with a loud hurray, they joined in the affray

We quickly cleared the way 
SI
for the rocky road to Dublin
                       DO#m
One, two, three, four, five

Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road
    SI                                      DO#m
And all the ways to Dublin whack-fol-lol-de-ra

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Rocky Road to Dublin è un brano reinterpretato e inciso dai Dubliners, contenuto nell'album The Dubliners with Luke Kelly pubblicato nel 1964. Disco d'esordio per la band irlandese, venne realizzato in presa diretta (forse addirittura registrato durante un concerto in un pub) due anni prima dall'uscita. La canzone, come molte dell'album, è un brano della tradizione popolare da loro riarrangiato; apre il lato B ed è a tempo di Giga, antico ballo rinascimentale.

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L'autore del post

Alberto Moneti

36 anni, polistrumentista: pianoforte, chitarra, batteria, clarinetto. Ha conseguito la licenza in teoria musicale e solfeggio presso il Conservatorio Cherubini di Firenze. Dal 1997 è organista presso la Basilica di Santa Maria del Sasso, a Bibbiena (AR).