The Wind That Shakes the Barley-The Clancy Brothers

[ti:The Wind That Shakes the Barley] [ar:The Clancy Brothers] [al:Irish Folk & St. Patrick's Classics] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Wind That Shakes the Barley - The Clancy Brothers [00:06.50]I sat within the valley green [00:11.17]I sat me with my true love [00:15.38] [00:16.46]My sad heart strove the two between [00:20.93]The old love and the new love [00:26.58]The old for her the new that [00:30.57]Made me think on Ireland dearly [00:37.61]While soft the wind blew down [00:41.32]The glen and shook the golden barley [00:48.60] [00:50.84]'Twas hard the woeful words to frame [00:55.31]To break the ties that bound us [01:00.51]But harder still to bear the shame [01:04.65]Of foreign chains around us [01:09.33]And so I said The mountain glen [01:13.53]I'll seek at morning early [01:20.14]And join the bold united men while [01:25.72]Soft winds shake the barley [01:30.93] [01:32.74]While sad I kissed away her tears [01:37.22]My fond arms round her flinging [01:42.12]The foeman's shot burst on our ears [01:46.21]From out the wildwood ringing [01:51.31]A bullet pierced my true love's side [01:55.72]In life's young spring so early [02:02.82]And on my breast in blood she died while [02:08.78]Soft winds shook the barley [02:14.00] [02:15.65]But blood for blood without remorse [02:19.16]I've taken at Oulart Hollow [02:23.35]And laid my true love's clay cold corpse [02:28.89]Where I full soon may follow [02:34.35] [02:35.63]As round her grave I wander drear [02:41.31]Noon night and morning early [02:49.43]With breaking heart when e'er I hear [02:55.24]The wind that shakes the barley