Chords, lyrics and tin whistle notes for Gallipoli by The Fureys. This beautiful Irish song, starting with a spine chilling tin whistle intro, is about an Irish young man who joined the English forces to fight in Gallipoli. He got killed and his mother died of sadness. This is a very shortcoming summary of the impressive lyrics, which you just have to read or listen to.
The Battle of Gallipoli was one of the Allies great disasters in World War One. The battle started in April 1915 on on the Gallipoli peninsula in the Ottoman Empire. The campaign was thought up by Winston Churchill to end the war early by creating a new war front that the Ottomans and Germans could not cope with. After 9 months of fighting and massive losses the Allies decided to evacuate. Over 200,000 soldiers were killed on Allied side and the same number at Turkish side.
Below you can find the chords and lyrics of Gallipoli by The Fureys.
The whistle notes of the intro can be found in the sheet music below. For the transcription of the tin whistle notes, I used the recording from the album The Fureys; Davey Arthur – Alcoholidays.
But as always it is best to see and hear them play, so check out this recording on YouTube of Gallipoli, The Fureys.
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