Spring Comes To Spiddal Chords

KeyC Capo2st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays612

Spring Comes To Spiddal by Waterboys is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C with a capo on the 2st fret. It uses the chords C, F, Am, G, G7 and D. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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C
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         C                                  F              C 
Well the lights are on in Standun's and the spell has been broken 
   Am        C       G             G7 
The roadside teahouse door is wide open 
  C                       F             C 
A sign on the wall says, "American also spoken" 
               D   C      
As spring comes to Spiddal 

    C                        F                C 
The village girls go walking by without their coats 
    Am           C           G                G7 
The Irish Gaelic college is alive again with folk 
C                         F                C 
Farmers gather talking freed from Winter's yoke 
               D   C 
As spring comes to Spiddal 

  G              C               G             C 
A tourist with a telescope and a funny looking German bloke 
      F          C                             G 
And a billy goat all invoke the summer soon to bloom 

     C                             F              C 
On a soft and fresh Atlantic air a mist of pollen floats 
   Am           C           D               G 
On Galway Bay I spy a gaily painted fishing boat 
          C                               F             C 
There's a rustle around the boreens and a song on every throat 
               D   C 
As spring comes to Spiddal 

C F C  
Am C G  
C F C  
D C 





Not 100% sure about the G7 but it is my personal preference to play it. 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante