An Irish Blessing

  Ralph McTell took the first two lines of the
 chorus from a well known Irish poem. The second
 two lines of the chorus are the translation back
 into Gaelic of the first two. I can't transliterate
 what Ralph sings and can't find it written down
 so I've used a poor English substitute.
  
 The verse needs a few chords I can't quite catch.
 This approximation more or less works. The descent on 
 the B string (Brun in the text) is the important bit.
   
 
     +   +   +   +     G/B Am  G     
 e :-9---------------|---------3-----3-|
 B :-----9---6---5---|-3---1-------0---|
 G :---0---0---0---0-|---0---0---0-----|
 D :-----------------|-----------------|
 A :-8-------5---3---|-2---0---2-------|
 E :-----------------|-----------------|
 
 
 We also need something on the "walked them home"
 bit, I think just adding the D# to the C works
 but I'm sure Ralph did something more interesting.
   Cm [x 3 2 0 4 0 ]
 
 C              G        C 
  How my life is changing now
 F             C        Am          G
 My young ones start to leave their home
   C                 G       C 
  I wish that their uncertain road
     F        C       G          C
 Was one that I could tread with them
                       Cm        C
 As when I walked them home from school
    Brun               G/B  Am   G      
 Or safely caught them when they fell
    C          G/B C  F    G     Am
 Or chased the demons from their dreams
       C                     G       C
 With jokes and stories that I could tell
 
 C                 F     C                          F
 May the road rise with you and the wind be at your back
 C         G     C      F      C         Am       G     C        
 Go gently now into the world, close the door and don't look back 
 
 C                   G      C 
  And now it's me who has to learn
    F       C         Am    G
 To let you make your way alone
     C              G       C 
  And try not to direct each turn
      F        C       G         C
 Your triumphs and mistakes your own
                    Cm     C
 But let me see you to the corner
    Brun          G/B  Am  G      
 Let me watch you down the streeet
     C      G/B  C  F    G     Am
 And may my love be your protector
       C                G       C
 And walk with you till next we meet
 
 
 C                 F     C                          F
 May the road rise with you and the wind be at your back
 C         G     C      F      C         Am       G     C        
 Go gently now into the world, close the door and don't look back 
 
 
 C              G           C 
  I hear the calling of your heart
   F      C         Am       G
 I see in your eyes that you know
 C                   G    C 
  To cherish it's the easy part
 F           C       G       C
 The hardest task is letting go
                          Cm    C
 Your path will different be to mine
    Brun            G/B Am G      
 Tricks my trade no use to you
    C      G/B C    F   G  Am
 To others and yourself be kind
       C              G       C
 Your suffering would hurt me too
 
 C                 F     C                          F
 May the road rise with you and the wind be at your back
 C         G     C      F      C         Am       G     C        
 Go gently now into the world, close the door and don't look back