The Wests Awake Acordes

[Verse 1]
     D            G
When all beside a vigil keep,
    A                  D
The West's asleep, the West's asleep
D                  G
Alas! and well may Erin weep
     A                D
When Connacht lies in slumber deep.
                           G
There lake and plain smile fair and free,
     Em                   A7
'Mid rocks their guardian chivalry.
      D       A              Bm
Sing, Oh! let man learn liberty
              A                D
From crashing wind and lashing sea.
 
[Verse 2]
     D                  G
That chainless wave and lovely land
A                D
Freedom nationhood demand;
   D                  G
Be sure the great God never planned
    A                   D
For slumb'ring slaves a home so grand.
                     G
And long a brave and haughty race
Em                A7
Honoured and sentinelled the place.
      D       A             Bm
Sing, Oh! not even sons' disgrace
            A                     D
Could quite destroy their glory's trace.
 
[Verse 3]
    D           G
For often, in O'Connor's van,
   A                   D
To triumph dashed each Connacht clan,
    D                 G
And fleet as deer the Normans ran
  A                         D
Through Corrsliabh Pass and Ardrahan;
                    G
And later times saw deeds as brave,
    Em                A7
And glory guards Clannricard's grave,
      D        A                  Bm
Sing, Oh! they died their land to save
             A                    D
At Aughrim's slopes and Shannon's wave.
 
[Verse 4]
    D              G
And if, when all a vigil keep,
    A                  D
The West's asleep! The West's asleep!
                   G
Alas! and well may Erin weep
     A                D
When Connacht lies in slumber deep.
 
[Outro]
                        G
But, hark! a voice like thunder spake,
    Em                A7
The West's awake! the West's awake!
      D      A                Bm
Sing, Oh! Hurrah! let England quake,
                 A                D
We'll watch till death for Erin's sake!
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