verse 1: C G7 C Well I am the merry ploughboy, and I plough the fields all day. G7 C Till sudden came across my mind, that I should run away G7 C See I?ve always hated slavery, since the day that I was born. G7 C So, I´m off to join the I.R.A. and I´m off tomorrow mornverse 2: C G7 C I?ll leave behind my old gray coat, and I?ll leave behind my plough. G7 C And I leave behind my horse and yoke, for no more I´ll need them now G7 C And I?ll take my short revolver, and my bandolier of lead G7 C And live or die, I can but try, to avenge my country?s deadC G7 So we´re off to Dublin in the green, in the green, C With the helmets glistening in the sun G7 Where the bayonets flash and the rifles crash C To the echo of a Thompson Gunverse 3: C G7 C And I?ll leave behind my Mary, She?s the girl that I adore G7 C And I wonder what she?ll think of me, when she hears the cannons roar G7 C And when the war is over, and Ireland is free G7 C I will take her to the church to wed, and a rebel?s wife she?ll beC G7 So we´re off to Dublin in the green, in the green, C With the helmets glistening in the sun G7 Where the bayonets flash and the rifles crash C To the echo of a Thompson GunC G7 So we´re off to Dublin in the green, in the green, C With the helmets glistening in the sun G7 Where the bayonets flash and the rifles crash C To the echo of a Thompson Gun