Текст песни с аккордами
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[Verse 1]
G C
Twas on July the twenty-eighth
G
In the year of thirty-seven,
G C
A fire was lit without a grate
G D G
And the flames leaped high to heaven.
G
Well the King and Queen came sailing down
D G
With the Lough in the finest order
G C
And we welcomed them to Belfast town
G D G
With a bonfire on the Border.
[Interlude]
G C G C G D G
[Verse 2]
G C
Oh the Queen put a muffler round her neck
D G
Assisted by her wee men,
G
And the King walked up and down the deck
G D G
Surrounded by his G-men.
G
He asked "What is that glare I see?"
G D G
The reply was there in order:
G C
"It´s Ireland united in loyalty
G D G
With a bonfire on the Border !"
[Interlude]
G C G C G D G
[Verse 3]
G C
Some say the spark came from Tír Eoghain
G
Some say it was Tír Chónaill,
G
But a County Down man said it lit on its own
G D G
The combustion being spontaneous.
G
A lad who loved the King and Queen
G D G
Who stood for Law and Order,
G C
Says the flames were Orange, White and Green
G D G
In that bonfire on the Border.
[Interlude]
G C G C G D G
[Verse 4]
G C
They may prance and dance in Belfast Town,
G
They may croon ´Whereas´ in Dublin;
G
They may sever the Empire from the Crown,
G D G
But they might as well not be troublin´
G
Neither Lay Tribunal nor Legal Bench,
G D G
Nor turnkey, tout or warder,
G C
Nor all the Boyne water can ever quench
G D G
That bonfire on the Border!
[Verse 5]
G C
Here´s to the lads that played the game,
G
Here´s to the minds that planned it,
G
Here´s to the hands that lit the flame,
D G
Here´s to the winds that fanned it:
G
May it blaze again from shore to shore
G D G
Consuming our land´s disorder:
G C
May it leap and roar from shore to shore
G D G
Till it burns away the Border!
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