Christy Moore, Messenger Boy (1987)
Key: :[G#m] (w: Christy Hennessy)
INTRO: [B] [G#m] [F#] //
[B] [G#m] [F# open]
VERSE 1:
[B] I'm goin' to saddle up me
[G#m] old grey
[F#] mare
I'm goin' to
[B] ride through the night without a worry
[G#m] or a
[F#] care
CHORUS:
I'm a messenger
[B] boy bringing my love to
[F#] you
I'm a messenger
[B] boy bringing my love to
[F#] you
BREAK: [B] [E]
VERSE 2:
[B] I see the light in
[G#m] her bed-
[F#]-room
I
[B] pray to God that I didn't
[G#m] come too
[F#] soon
REPEAT CHORUS:
BREAK: [B] [E] //
[B] [E]
VERSE 3:
[B] Two big dogs and a man shouts
[G#m] "Who goes
[F#] there?"
I've
[B] ridden trough the cold, and the wind, and the rain,
and the frost, and the snow, and I'm in love
and I do not feel the
[F#] pain
REPEAT CHORUS:
BREAK: [B] [E] :
[Multiple Times] 