Bob Dylan - Eileen Aroon guitar tab

Eileen Aroon

Gerald Griffin (1803-1840), from the Gaelic of Carrol O'Daly (1300's)

As played by Bob Dylan in St Louis, MO, June 17th 1988

Tabbed by Eyolf Østrem

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Chords:

E 022100

Esus4 022200

A 002220

F#m7' 202200 (w/thumb on 6th string)

E/G# 422100 or 476454 or some other variant with

the two lowest strings open; the only essential

tone is the G# on the 6th string

A' 577600

B' 799800

C#m x46654 or x46650

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E Esus4 E Esus4

E Esus4 E

There is a valley fair

A F#m7' E

Eileen Aroon

Esus4 E

There is a cottage there

A F#m' E

Eileen Aroon

E/G# A' E/G# B'

Far in the valley shade I know a tender maid

E/G# A C#m A F#m7' E

Flow'r of the hazel glade, Eileen Aroon.

Were she no longer true

Eileen Aroon

What would her lover do

Eileen Aroon

Fly with a broken chain

far cross the sounding main

Never to love again, Eileen Aroon.

Who in the time so fleet

Eileen Aroon

Who in the song so sweet

Eileen Aroon

Dearer her charms to me

dearer her laughter free

Dearer her constancy

Eileen Aroon.

Youth will in time decay

Eileen Aroon

Beauty must fade away

Eileen Aroon

Castles are sacked in war

chieftains are scattered far

Truth is a fixed star

Eileen Aroon.

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Additional first verse

When, like the dawning day

Eileen Aroon

Love sends his early ray

Eileen Aroon.

What makes his dawning glow

Changeless through joy and woe

Only the constant know

Eileen Aroon.