Guitar chords Donegal Danny

Key:  D

                  
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        I remember the night that he came in
                            
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        from the wintry cold and damp.
                                                        
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        A giant of a man in an oilskin coat
                      
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        and a bundle that told he was a tramp
                  
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        He stood at the bar and he called a pint,
                      
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          then turned and gazed at the fire.
                                                                  
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        "On a night like this to be safe and dry,
                      
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        is my one and only desire."
        
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So here's to those that are dead and gone,
                                
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the friends that I loved dear.
          
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And here's to you and I'll bid you adieu,
                                
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saying Donegal Danny's been here me boys,
  
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Donegal Danny's been here.
            
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        Then in a voice that was hushed and low,
                            
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        he said 'Listen I'll tell you a tale,
                                                                    
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        how a man of the sea became a man of the roads,
                  
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        and never more will set sail.
                      
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        I've fished out of Howth and Killybegs, Ardglass and Baltimore.
                                                      
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        But the cruel sea has beaten me,
                              
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          and I'll end my days on the shore."
                  
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        One fateful night in the wind and the rain,
                      
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        we set sail from Killybegs town.
                                                                          
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        There were five of us from sweet Donegal,
                  
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        and one from County Down.
                          
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        We were fishermen who worked the sea,
                  
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        and never counted the cost.
                                                                  
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        But I never thought ere that night was done,
                  
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        that my fine friends would all be lost.
                              
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        Then the storm it broke and drove the boat,
                        
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        to the rocks about ten miles from shore.
                                                          
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        As we fought the tide we hoped inside,
                
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        to see our homes once more.
                  
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        Then we struck a rock and holed the bow,
                
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        and all of us knew that she'd go down.
                                                              
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        So we jumped right into the icy sea,
                    
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        and prayed to God we wouldn't drown.
                        
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        But the raging sea was rising still,
              
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        as we struck out for the land.
                                                                
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        And she fought with all her cruelty,
                  
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        to claim that gallant band.
              
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        By St John's Point in the early dawn,
                
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        I dragged myself on the shore.
                                                            
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        And I cursed the sea for what she'd done,
                  
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        and vowed to sail her never more.
        
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        Ever since that night I've been on the road,
            
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        travelling and trying to forget,
                                                      
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        that awful night I lost all my friends, I see their faces yet.
                
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        And often at night when the sea is high,
                          
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        and the rain is tearing at my skin,
                                                
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      I hear the cries of drowning men,
            
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      floating over on the wind'.