The Banks of the Lee

Canadian folksinger Jesse Ferguson performs traditional Irish ballad, "The Banks of the Lee" (Roud 9493). Chords and lyrics below.

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The Banks of the Lee
(traditional, arrang. J. Ferguson, 2020)

Capo @ 2

V1.
Am G Em
Where true lovers meet down beside the green bower,
Am G Em G Am
where true lovers meet down beneath the green tree,
Am G Em
there Mary, fond Mary, declared to her lover:
Am G Em G Em
"You have stolen my poor heart by the Banks of the Lee."

Chorus:
I loved her very dearly, most true and sincerely.
There was no one in this wide world I loved more than she.
Every bush and every bower, every wild Irish flower
reminds me of my Mary, by the banks of the Lee.

V2.
Don't stay out too late, love, on the moorlands, my Mary.
Don't stay out too late, love, on the moorlands from me.
For little was our notion when we parted by the ocean
that we were forever parted from the Banks of the Lee.

V3.
I will pluck for her some roses, some wild Irish roses.
I will pluck for her some roses, the fairest that ever grew.
And I'll lay them on the graveside of my own dear darling Mary
in that cold and silent churchyard where she sleeps 'neath the dew.