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COLLEEN MALONE
Pete Goble & LeRoy Drumm (Brandykeg Pub., BMI)
From: "Take It Home" CD / Sugar Hill Records 3784
Transcribed by: Brian McNeal from "Choice Picks" CD Celebrating the 10th Annual International Bluegrass Music Awards.

This song won "Song of the Year - 1991" honors for writers Goble & Drumm

"COLLEEN MALONE"

(Capo: 2nd Fret)

         (G)           (D)           (C)           (G)
It's been ten years and three since I first went to sea
        (C)             (D)         (G)
Since I sailed from old Ireland and home.
                           (D)           (C)       (G)
With those hills, lush and green where I parted my dream
       (C)           (D)     (G)
When I dreamed of my Colleen Malone.

(G)              (D)          (C)       (G)
On the day I returned,  to my sorrow I learned
         (C)        (D)        (G)
That the angels had called her away.
                (D)      (C)         (G)
To a grave on a hill overlooking the mill
           (C)               (D)      (G)
That's the place where she's sleeping today.

(chorus)
(solo)
       (D)                          (C)      (G)
As the soft breezes flow through the meadow I go
          (C)          (D)          (G)
Past the mill with the moss-covered stone
       (D)                        (C)            (G)
Up the pathway I climb thought the woods and the vines
   (C)        (D)     (G)
To be with my Colleen Malone

        (G)           (D)      (C)        (G)
She was faithfull each day as I sailed far away
         (C)        (D)         (G)
There was no one but me that she loved.
                     (D)           (C)         (G)
And I remember those eyes, soft and blue as the skies
        (C)         (D)       (G)
And her heart was as pure as a dove.

(chorus)
(solo)

        (G)        (D)         (C)        (G)
All the years of my life I will not take a wife
       (C)        (D)    (G)
I will live in the valley alone.
                 (D)           (C)         (G)
Planting flowers around in this soft gentle ground
        (C)        (D)     (G)
That is holding my Colleen Malone.

(Chorus)

----HOT RIZE:  Tim O'Brien - lead vocals & mandolin, fiddle
               Nick Forster - harmony vocals, bass
               Charles Sawtelle - guitar
               Pete Wernicxk - harmony vocals, banjo

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