Christy Moore, Messenger Boy (1987)
Key: :[Bm] (w: Christy Hennessy)
INTRO: [D] [Bm] [A] //
[D] [Bm] [A open]
VERSE 1:
[D] I'm goin' to saddle up me
[Bm] old grey
[A] mare
I'm goin' to
[D] ride through the night without a worry
[Bm] 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
[Bm] her bed-
[A]-room
I
[D] pray to God that I didn't
[Bm] come too
[A] soon
REPEAT CHORUS:
BREAK: [D] [G] //
[D] [G]
VERSE 3:
[D] Two big dogs and a man shouts
[Bm] "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:
