A Stór Mo Chroí Chords

A Stór Mo Chroí - The Chieftains/Bonnie Raitt
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BathVeQzjo
 
Released 1999 from album "Tears of a Stone"
(Easier to play at Capo 1) ↓↑→
A Stór mo Chroí (Treasure of my Heart) was written by Brian O’Higgins (1882 – 1963) at a time when emigration
was very prevalent. He used the melody of an Irish air, Bruach na Carriage Báine.
 
Easier to play at Capo 1
 
 
[Intro]
| Bbm | Ab Fm |
| Bbm Fm | Bbm |
 
 
[Verse 1]
   Bbm                        ( Ab    Fm )
A ↑Stór Mo Chroí, when you're   far a↓way
         ( Bbm              Ab  )   Bbm
From the   home that you'll soon be leaving
     Bbm            ( Ab           Fm )
It's many a time by   night and by day
          ( Bbm           Ab  )  Bbm
That your   heart will be sorely grieving
        ( Bbm        Db )        ( Fm         Bbm )
For the   stranger's land may be ↑-bright and fair
    ( Gb          Db  )     ( Bbm Fm )
And   rich in its treasures ↑-gol-den
       ( Bbm     Db )          ( Ab    Fm )
You'll   pine, I know, for the   long ago
        ( Bbm          Fm )  Bbm
And the   love that is never olden
 
 
[Verse 2]
   Bbm                   ( Ab         Fm )
A ↑Stór Mo Chroí, in the   stranger's land
         ( Bbm       Ab  )      Bbm
There is   plenty of wealth and wailing
      Bbm            ( Ab        Fm  )
While gems adorn the   great and grand
          ( Bbm        Ab )   Bbm
There are   faces with hunger pailing
    ( Bbm     Db )       ( Fm      Bbm )
The   road is weary, and ↑-hard to tread
        ( Gb              Db  )  ( Bbm   Fm )
And the   lights of their cities ↑-blind you
         ( Bbm    Db  )    ( Ab     Fm   )
Wont you   turn A Stor, to   Erin's shore
        ( Bbm           Fm  )  Bbm
And the   love that you left behind you
 
 
[Instrumental]
| Bbm | Ab Fm |
| Bbm Fm | Bbm |
 
 
[Verse 3]
   Bbm                     ( Ab        Fm )
A ↑Stór Mo Chroí, when the   evening's sun
     ( Bbm          Ab )      Bbm
Over   mountain and meadow is falling
         Bbm                 ( Ab         Fm  )
Wont you turn away, from the   throng and list
    ( Bbm          Ab )    Bbm
And   maybe you'll hear me calling
        ( Bbm        Db  )         ( Fm     Bbm )
For the   sound of a voice that is ↑-surely min-e
    ( Gb         Db )    ( Bbm Fm  )
For   somebody's speedy re↑tur-ning
  ( Bbm    Db  )          ( Ab        Fm  )
A   rún, a rún, won't you   come back soon
       ( Bbm           Fm  )  Bbm
To the   one that will always love you
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