X: 1
T: Mountains of Pomeroy (G major)
R: 4/4 Song Air
C: air unknown, words from a poem by George Sigerson (1836-1925) from Strabane, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Z: transcribed and arranged by Frank Weber
S: learned from the Bow Brothers' album
D: 1943: Richard O'Mealy: BBC Recordings
D: 1988: De Danann: A Jacket of Batteries
D: 1994: (1988); Alec Finn: Blue Shamrock
D: 1995: De Danann: Hibernian Rhapsody
D: 1998: Ron Kavana & The Alias Acoustic Band: Irish Songs of Rebellion, Resistance & Reconciliation 1798-1998
D: 1999: Cathal Hayden: Cathal Hayden
D: 1999: Thomasina: Holding Back the Night
D: 2000: Iarla Ó Lionáird: I Could Read the Sky
D: 2001: Laoise Kelly: Irish Aires
D: 2006: Reeltime: Live It Up
D: 2007: Dennis Gallery & Friends: Dennis Gallery & Friends
D: 2009: Mithril: Tangled Up
D: 2009: Paddy Homan: Paddy Homan
D: 2009: The Young Wolftones: On the One Road
D: 2009: Malachi Cush: Two Sides of Malachi
D: 2010: Ladlane: Out of Dublin
D: 2011: The Rapparees: Wrapped Up
D: 2012: Máirtín O'Connor Band: Going Places
D: 2012: Malachi Cush: The Galway Girl
D: 2013: Girsa: A Sweeter Place
D: 2013: Dick Hogan: Songs Our Parents Loved, Vol. 2
D: 2014: Seán Keane: Christmas by the Hearth
D: 2014: Tommy Fleming: The Essential Collection
D: 2015: Jeff Furman & Janet Furman: Celtic Jewels
D: 2016: Kick Up the Dust: Juice of the Dust
D: 2017: Cathal Hayden, Stephen Hayden & Niall Murphy: Bow Brothers
D: 2017: Niall Hanna: Autumn Winds
N: Chords: | G  -  | G  C  | G  -  | C  -   |
N:         | G  -  | G  C  | G  G  | G  -  :|
N:         | G  -  | C  D  | G  -  | C  -   |
N:         | G  -  | G  C  | G  G  | G  -  :|
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
Q: 1/4=100
K: G major % 1 sharp
N:
N: Tune only:
N: ==========
N: zzBc | d3B d>c BA | G2 E/F/G E2 GE   | D3E    G2 AB   | c4 z d/c/ Bc  |
N:        d3B d>c BA | G2 E/F/G E3 G/E/ | D3E    G2 G>A  | G4           :|
N: DEGA | B3A G2  AB | c3     d d2 g>e  | d2 B>A G3 A/B/ | c4 z d/c/ Bc  |
N:        d3B d>c BA | G2 E/F/G E3 G/E/ | D3E    G2 G>A  | G4           :|
N:
N: Tune with Chords:
N: =================
zzBc | "G" d3B d>c BA | "G" G2 E/F/G "C" E2 GE   | "G" D3E       G2 AB   | "C" c4 z d/c/ Bc  |
       "G" d3B d>c BA | "G" G2 E/F/G "C" E3 G/E/ | "G" D3E   "G" G2 G>A  | "G" G4           :|
DEGA | "G" B3A G2  AB | "C" c3     d "D" d2 g>e  | "G" d2 B>A    G3 A/B/ | "C" c4 z d/c/ Bc  |
       "G" d3B d>c BA | "G" G2 E/F/G "C" E3 G/E/ | "G" D3E   "G" G2 G>A  | "G" G4           :|
N:
W: 1. The morn was breaking bright and fair,
W:    The lark sang in the sky,
W:    When the maid she bound her goIden hair,
W:    With a blithe glance in her eye;
W:    For, who beyond the gay green-wood,
W:    Was a-waiting her with joy,
W:    Oh, who but her gallant Renaldine,
W:    On the mountains of Pomeroy.
W: 2. Full often in the dawning hour,
W:    Full oft in twilight brown
W:    He met the maid in the woodland bow'r,
W:    Where the stream comes foaming down
W:    For they were faithful in a love
W:    No wars could e'er destroy.
W:    No tyrant's law touched Renaldine,
W:    On the mountains of Pomeroy
W: 3. "Oh love, oh love, I'm sore afraid
W:    For the foeman's force and you
W:    For they'll track you in the lowland plain
W:    And all the valley through
W:    My kinsman frowned when you were named
W:    Oh, your life they would destroy
W:    'Oh beware,' they said, 'Of Renaldine
W:    On the mountains of Pomeroy.'"
W: 4. "Fear not, fear not, my love," he cries
W:    "For the foeman's force and me
W:    No change shall fall whate'er betide
W:    On the arm that should be free.
W:    Come leave your cruel kith and kin
W:    And with your soldier flee
W:    It's with my gun I will guard you
W:    On the mountains of Pomeroy"
W: 5. The morn has come, she arose and fled
W:    From her cruel kin and home
W:    And searched the wood all rosy red
W:    And the tumbling torrent's foam
W:    But the rain came down and the tempest roared
W:    And did all around destroy
W:    And a pale drowned bride met Renaldine
W:    On the mountains of Pomeroy