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