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