Nancy Mulligan - Ed Sheeran, guitar chords

Published: 2017-05-30 13:43
Selection chords: Ethan Cooper

Verse:
Fm                      C#          D#
I was twenty-four years old when I met the woman
         Fm
I would call my own
       Fm                 C#       G#           C#
Twenty-two grand kids now growing old in that house
          D#       Fm
that your brother bought ya
       Fm                   C#        D#
On the summer day when I proposed, I made that wedding ring
      Fm
from dentist gold
      Fm                       C#          G#
And I asked her father but her daddy said no,
 C#         D#        Fm
you canʼt marry my daughter

Chorus:
G#              C#      G#    D#                  C#  G#
She and I went on the run, donʼt care about religion
G#                   C#       G#     C#           D#       Fm
Iʼm gonna marry the woman I love, down by the Wexford border
G#             C#    G#        D#             C#   G#
She was Nancy Mulligan, and I was William Sheeran
    G#                     C#       G#    C#           D#       Fm
She took my name and then we were one, down by the Wexford border

Fm  C# D#   Fm
Fm  C# G# C# D#  Fm

Verse:
       Fm                                   C#
Well I met her at Guyʼs in the second world war
    D#                    Fm
and she was working on a soldierʼs ward
      Fm              C#        G#        C#      D#      Fm
Never had I seen such beauty before the moment that I saw her
Fm                  C#        D#
Nancy was my yellow rose and we got married wearing
Fm
borrowed clothes
       Fm                 C#       G#    C#
We got eight children now growing old, five sons
D#         Fm
and three daughters

Chorus:
G#              C#      G#    D#                  C#  G#
She and I went on the run, donʼt care about religion
G#                   C#       G#     C#           D#       Fm
Iʼm gonna marry the woman I love, down by the Wexford border
G#             C#    G#        D#             C#   G#
She was Nancy Mulligan, and I was William Sheeran
    G#                     C#       G#    C#           D#       Fm
She took my name and then we were one, down by the Wexford border

Bridge:
G#                       C#   D#
Di da-da-da-da-da di-da-di, di da-da-da-da-da di-da-di, da da
G#                       C#   D#                 G#
Di da-da-da-da-da di-da-di, di da-da-da-da-da di
G#                       C#   D#
Di da-da-da-da-da di-da-di, di da-da-da-da-da di-da-di, da da
G#                       C#   D#                 G#
Di da-da-da-da-da di-da-di, di da-da-da-da-da di

Verse:
         Fm                                 C#
From her snow white streak in her jet black hair,
     D#                     Fm
over sixty years Iʼve been loving her
          Fm                     C#      G#
Now weʼre sat by the fire in our old armchairs,
         C#     D#  Fm
you know Nancy I adore ya
       Fm                         C#
From a farm boy born near Belfast town,
 D#                         Fm
I never worried about the king and crown
         Fm                      C#        G#
ʼCause I found my heart upon the southern ground,
           C#          D#   Fm
thereʼs no difference I assure ya

Chorus:
G#              C#      G#    D#                  C#  G#
She and I went on the run, donʼt care about religion
G#                   C#       G#     C#           D#       Fm
Iʼm gonna marry the woman I love, down by the Wexford border
G#             C#    G#        D#             C#   G#
She was Nancy Mulligan, and I was William Sheeran
    G#                     C#       G#    C#           D#       Fm
She took my name and then we were one, down by the Wexford border

Outro:
G#                       C#   D#
Di da-da-da-da-da di-da-di, di da-da-da-da-da di-da-di, da da
G#                       C#   D#                 G#
Di da-da-da-da-da di-da-di, di da-da-da-da-da di
G#                       C#   D#
Di da-da-da-da-da di-da-di, di da-da-da-da-da di-da-di, da da
G#                       C#   D#                 G#
Di da-da-da-da-da di-da-di, di da-da-da-da-da di