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My Wild Irish Rose

Words and Music by Chauncey Olcott - 1899

Verse:-----------	------------------	------------------	------------------
C	C+	F	C
-	D7	G7	-
C	C+	F	C
-	Fm           G7	C	-
G7	-	C	-            E7
Am	D7	G7	-
C	C+	F	C
-	Fm            G7	C	G7
Chorus:---------	------------------	------------------	------------------
C	E7	Am	C7
F	-	C	-           C#dim
G7	C            C#dim	G7	-
D7	-              Cdim	G7	-
C	E7	Am	C7
F	-	C	-           C#dim
G7	C            C#dim	G7	C
F	D7          G7	C	-  (G7 to chorus)

12-beat intro. with 2 lead-in notes ("If you").  Play 3-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

Note:  This song is in 3/4 waltz time.

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Verse:

If you lis - ten I'll sing you a sweet lit - tle song,

Of a flow - er that's now droped and dead.

Yet dear - er to me, yes, than all of its mates,

Tho each holds a - loft its proud head.

'Twas giv - en to me by a girl that I know,

Since we've met, faith I've known no re - pose.

She is dear - er by far than the world's bright - est star,
And I call her my wild I - rish Rose.

 

Chorus:

My wild I - rish Rose,

The sweet - est flow'r that grows.

You may search ev - 'ry where, but none can com - pare,

With my wild I - rish Rose.

My wild I - rish Rose,

The dear - est flow'r that grows,

And some day for my sake, she may let me take,

The bloom from my wild I - rish Rose.

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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