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