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Chords and Lyrics for Kathleen Mavourneen

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Music by Frederick Crouch
Words by Marion Crawford

VERSE 1

Eb 
Kathleen Mavourneen! the grey dawn is breaking 

    Bb7                   Eb 
The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill;

                                               Ab 
The lark from her light wing the bright dew is shaking,

Eb                         Bb7        Eb 
Kathleen Mavourneen! what, slumbering still!

   Cm           G7         Cm           G7 
Oh hast thou forgotten how soon we must sever?

    Cm                       F7          Bb7 
Oh, hast thou forgotten this day we must part?

   Eb                                 Ab 
It may be for years, and it may be forever;

    Eb           Bb7                      Eb 
Oh, why art thou silent, thou voice of my heart?

   Fm         Eb            Bb7       Eb 
It may be for years, and it may be forever;

     Fm           Eb      Bb7            Eb 
Then why art thou silent, Kathleen Mavourneen? 

  
VERSE 2

Eb 
Kathleen Mavourneen! awake from thy slumbers;

    Bb7                        Eb 
The blue mountains glow in the sun's golden light;

                                            Ab 
Ah! where is the spell that once hung on my numbers?

 Eb                       Bb7        Eb 
Arise in thy beauty, thou star of my night.

  Cm          G7           Cm            G7 
Mavourneen, Mavourneen, my sad tears are falling,

   Cm                       F7          Bb7 
To think that from Erin and thee I must part;

   Eb                                 Ab 
It may be for years, and it may be forever;

     Eb           Bb7                      Eb 
Then why art thou silent, thou voice of my heart?

   Fm         Eb            Bb7       Eb 
It may be for years, and it may be forever;

     Fm           Eb      Bb7            Eb 
Then why art thou silent, Kathleen Mavourneen? 

  

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