Annotation:Wind that Shakes the Barley (3) (The)
X:1 T:Wind that Shakes the Barley [3] S:Various; Solas "Sunny Spells..." Z:Jerome Colburn M:6/8 K:Em B | B2 B A2 B | G2 A F2 G | E2 E ^D^C^D |1 E G2-G2 :|2 E E2-E2|| B, | E2 F G2 A | B2 A G2 A | B2 e e2 ^d | e2 ^d B2 e | e2 B A2 B | G2 A F2 G | E2 E ^D^C^D | E E2-E2 |]**
WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY [3], THE. Irish, Air (6/8 time). E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'B. The song "Wind that shakes the barley" [1] (Roud No. 2994) was written by Robert Dwyer Joyce [2] (1836–1883), and has been set to various airs. It is a song of a rebel of 1798 as he contemplates joining the rising and leaving his loved ones. The first stanza goes:
I sat within a valley green,
I sat there with my true love,
My sad heart strove the two between,
The old love and the new love, -
The old for her, the new that made
Me think of Ireland dearly,
While soft the wind blew down the glade
And shook the golden barley.