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RETURN TO IRISH SONGS<\/span><\/strong><\/a>
\nVIEW SHEET MUSIC<\/a><\/p>\n

[CHORUS @ 3:4 Time]
\n<\/strong><\/span>May the [G] road rise up to meet you.
\nMay the wind be at your [D7] back.
\nSun shine down upon your face, clear away your [G] track.
\nMay the [G] rain fall softy on your fields
\n’til we meet [D7] again.
\nMay the [B7] road rise up to meet you,
\nand God [D7] hold you in his [G] hand.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

[VERSE @ 4:4 Time]
\n[G] Grandma came from Ireland, [G7] to the USA
\n[C] brought this song from Ireland, [D7] sang it ev’ry day
\n[G] Now that Grandma’s left us, [G7] doesn’t seem she’s gone
\n[C] When we get to-[G]-gether we sing [D7] Grandma’s Irish song.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

[CHORUS @ 3:4 Time]
\nMay the [G] road rise up to meet you.
\nMay the wind be at your [D7] back.
\nSun shine down upon your face, clear away your [G] track.
\nMay the [G] rain fall softy on your fields
\n’til we meet [D7] again.
\nMay the [B7] road rise up to meet you,
\nand God [D7] hold you in his [G] hand.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

[VERSE @ 4:4 Time]
\n[G] Could not see the highway, [G7] rain came down on me.
\n[C] Pulled into a truckstop, [D7] south of Tennessee.
\n[G] Drank a cup of coffee, [G7] headed for the door,
\n[C] waitress hollered [G] out to me, these [D7] words I’d heard before.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

[CHORUS @ 3:4 Time]
\nMay the [G] road rise up to meet you.
\nMay the wind be at your [D7] back.
\nSun shine down upon your face, clear away your [G] track.
\nMay the [G] rain fall softy on your fields
\n’til we meet [D7] again.
\nMay the [B7] road rise up to meet you,
\nand God [D7] hold you in his [G] hand.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

[VERSE @ 4:4 Time]
\n[G] Way down south in Dixie, [G7] all the world could see \u2013
\n[C] Black and White divided, [D7] neither one was free.
\n[G] If we take the high road, [G7] hold each other’s hand
\n[C] we’ll be on that [G] mountain top and [D7] see that Promised Land.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

[CHORUS @ 3:4 Time]
\nMay the [G] road rise up to meet you.
\nMay the wind be at your [D7] back.
\nSun shine down upon your face, clear away your [G] track.
\nMay the [G] rain fall softy on your fields
\n’til we meet [D7] again.
\nMay the [B7] road rise up to meet you,
\nand God [D7] hold you in his [G] hand.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

[VERSE @ 4:4 Time]
\n[G] Take this Irish blessing, [G7] all of us can share.
\n[C7] Pass it down to our kids, [D7] when we can’t be there.
\n[G] If you lose direction, [G7] and you feel alone \u2013
\n[C] sing this Irish [G] song to help you [D7] find your way back home.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

[CHORUS @ 3:4 Time]
\nMay the [G] road rise up to meet you.
\nMay the wind be at your [D7] back.
\nSun shine down upon your face, clear away your [G] track.
\nMay the [G] rain fall softy on your fields
\n’til we meet [D7] again.
\nMay the [B7] road rise up to meet you,
\nand God [D7] hold you in his [G] hand.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

[CHORUS @ 3:4 Time]
\nMay the [G] road rise up to meet you.
\nMay the wind be at your [D7] back.
\nSun shine down upon your face, clear away your [G] track.
\nMay the [G] rain fall softy on your fields
\n’til we meet [D7] again.
\nMay the [B7] road rise up to meet you,
\nand God [D7] hold you in his [G] hand.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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RETURN TO IRISH SONGS VIEW SHEET MUSIC [CHORUS @ 3:4 Time] May the [G] road rise up to meet you. May the wind be at your [D7] back. Sun shine down upon your face, clear away your [G] track. May the [G] rain fall softy on your fields ’til we … CLICK TO VIEW SONGMay the Road Rise up – END<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,133,126,265,64,116,117,123,115,51,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perflive","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-best-songs","category-irish-songs","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-live-songlist-tenor","category-live-tenor","category-songpics-sheetmusic","category-end-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30207,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817\/revisions\/30207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}