Bridget O'Malley

Traditional Irish ballad, "Bridget O'Malley," performed by Canadian folk musician Jesse Ferguson. Chords and lyrics below.

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Bridget O'Malley
(traditional, arrang. J. Ferguson, Dec. 2013)

3/4, 108 bpm

V1.
C F Am
Oh, Bridget O'Malley, you’ve left my heart riven
F Am C F
by a hopeless desolation, I'll have you to know!
Am C F
It's a ceaseless admiration to your quiet face I've given;
F Am G C
now your beauty will haunt me wherever I go.

V2.
The moon above the pale sands, the stars above the thorn-tree
are cold beside my darling, but no purer than she.
I gaze into the cold moon, till it melts within the sunbeams,
but her gaze—brighter than either—falls no more on me.

V3.
My days, they are weary. My days, they are grey now.
My heart, it is a cold thing—my heart is a stone!
All joy is dead within me! My life has gone away now,
for another has taken my love for his own.

V4.
The day, it is approaching when we were to be married,
and it's rather would I die than live only to grieve!
Then meet me, my darling, and I pray you don't tarry,
and I'll bid you adieu on the road to Drumslieve.

V5.
Since it's I have lost my one love—no other shall be my wife.
You hear these words telling you now of my sad fate.
May no harm come to you; I tell you to enjoy life.
I wish that I could, but for me it's too late!

V6.
Oh, Bridget O'Malley, you’ve left my heart riven
by a hopeless desolation, I'll have you to know!
It's a ceaseless admiration to your quiet face I've given;
F Am G Am
now your beauty will haunt me wherever I go.
F Am G C
Now your beauty will haunt me wherever I go.

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