Stamping Ground Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

 are only 4 chords used (C, G, D, Em)

(Translation:

Gaidhlig: 'Tha feur ur air bar an tallamh, bar an tallamh, horribh o'

English: 'There's a new grass growing on the top of the soil'

(Just singing in the verses. After the first two choruses, instruments stop playing and

there is only singing, apart from the 3 drum beats used on 'Tha feur ur air bar an

tallamh, bar an tallamh, horribh o' line.

Verse 1

GApril comes to the new grass oCn the hills of golGd

GTha feur ur air bCar an tallamh, bGar an tallamh, horCribh o

 Where wiGnter falls in the loCng cold north

 Black Gwaters wait in the ICce and snGow

GTha feur ur air bCar an tallamh, bGar an tallamh, hCorribh o

 Black Gwaters wait in the ICce and sun

 Through the glCens where your great rivers run G

Chorus

 Back on the Cstamping Gground D C

 to where it aEmll begCan G D

 Back on the Cstamping Gground D C

 We cGome again

 Same notes for verses 2 & 3: (G, C)

 Same chords for chorus: (C, G, D, C, Em,

C, G, D, C, G, D, C, G)

Verse 2

So we tend and we nurtur all the seeds we've sown

Tha feur ur air bar an tallamh, bar an tallamh, horribh o

Through all the frosts and rains the west winds blow

till the fields turn ripe and a harvest stored

Tha feur ur air bar an tallamh, bar an tallamh, horribh o

Through all the frosts and rains the west winds blow

We will wait here till the winter's end

Chorus

Back on the stamping ground

to where it all began

Back on the stamping ground

We come again

Verse 3

So it's blood on blood, our bond, our word

Tha feur ur air bar an tallamh, bar an tallamh, horribh o

For the strength and weakness of our days

is to take you there on a journey shared

Tha feur ur air bar an tallamh, bar an tallamh, horribh o

So take this ring, make it sparkle and glow

it's much greater than we may ever know

Chorus

Back on the stamping ground

to where it all began

Back on the stamping ground

We come again