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Thread #2678   Message #1148513
Posted By: paddymac
28-Mar-04 - 07:45 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Give Me Your Hand / Tabhair Dom Do Lámh
Subject: Lyr Add: GIVE ME YOUR HAND (from Wolfe Tones)
Com - "Si Beag Si Mor" is, I believe, an O'Carolan piece, and probably the most widely played session tune attributable to him.

Now, here's the "Wolfe Tones'" version of "Give Me Your Hand."

GIVE ME YOUR HAND
From "The Wolfe Tones Songbook Vol. 2"; Lyrics by Brian Warfield, (c) Waltons Music, 1990

Bb/F F Bb/F F
Will you give me your hand is "Tabhair dom do lamh,"
Bb/F F
Just give me your hand and I'll walk with you.
C F Gm Dm
Through the streets of our land, through the mountains so grand.
Bb F
If you just give me your hand.
Bb F
Just give me your hand and come along with me
Bb F
Will you give me your hand and the world it can see,
C F Gm Dm
That we can be free in peace and harmony
F Dm Bb C
From the north to the south, from the east to the west,
F F7
Every mountain, every valley, every bush and bird's nest,
F C
By day and by night, through our struggle and strife,
Bb F C
I'm beside you to guide you forever my love,
F F7 Bb Bb
For love's not for one, for the both of us to share,
Dm C F
For a country so fair, for a world of what's there.


Will you give me your hand is "tabhair dom do lamh,"
Just give me your hand, for the world it is ours
All the sea and the land, who'll destroy our command.
Just give me your hand.
Just give me your hand in the gesture of peace.
Give me your hand and all troubles will cease.
The strong and the weak, both the rich and the poor,
All people and creeds, let meet their needs,
With a passion and compassion, a new world of love.
By day and by night, through our struggle and strife,
I'm beside you to guide you forever my love,
For love's not for one, for the both of us to share,
For a country so fair, for a world of what's there.