Grace

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1] As we gather in the chapel here in old Kilmainham Jail
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I think about these past few weeks, oh will they say we've fai-led?
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From our school days they have told us, we must yearn for liber-ty
. C G Em C D G
Yet all I want in this dark place is to have you here with me

Refrein/ chorus
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Oh Grace just hold me in your arms and let this moment lin-ger
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They'll take me out at dawn and I will die
. C G
With all my love I place this wedding ring upon your fin-ger
. C G D G
There won't be time to share our love, for we must say good-bye

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2] Now I know it's hard for you my love to ever under-stand
. C G Em Am
The love I shared for these brave men, my love for my dear land
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But when glory called me to his side down in the GPO
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I had to leave my own sick bed, to him I had to go

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Oh Grace just hold me in your arms and let this moment lin-ger
. C G Am D
They'll take me out at dawn and I will die
. C G
With all my love I place this wedding ring upon your fin-ger
. C G D G
There won't be time to share our love, for we must say good-bye

. A D E
3] Now as the dawn is breaking, my heart is breaking too
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On this May morn as I walk out, my thoughts will be of you
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And I'll write some words upon the wall so every-one will know
. D A D E A
I loved so much that I could see his blood u-pon the rose. Refrein

. E D A
Oh Grace just hold me in your arms and let this moment lin-ger
. D A E
They'll take me out at dawn and I must die
. D A
With all my love I place this wedding ring upon your fin-ger
. D A E A
There won't be time to share our love, for we must say good-bye

. D A E A
There won't be time to share our love, so we must say good-bye