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Steve Earle - Dixieland Ukulele

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Dixieland Ukulele

(ver. 1)
Steve Earle
Intro
D   G   D   Bm   A    D

D                                                           G
I am Kilrain and I'm a fightin' man and I come from County Clare 
                                   D                            Bm
And the Brits would hang me for a Fenian so I took me leave of there 
        D                                                  G
And I crossed the ocean in the "Arrianne", the vilest tub afloat 
                                          D                       Bm
And the captain's brother was a railroad man and he met us at the boat 
     A                              G                                   A
So I joined up with the 20th Maine like I said my friend I'm a fighting man 
          D         Em            F#m     G     
And we're marchin' south in the pouring rain
      A                 D
We're all goin' down to Dixieland 


D                                                      G
I am Kilrain of the 20th Maine and we fight for Chamberlain 
                                        D                                  Bm
'Cause he stood right with us when the Johnnies came like a banshee on the wind 
        D                                             G
In the smoke smeared hell of Gettysburg many a mother wept 
                     D                                            Bm
For many a good boy died there, sure, and the air smelt just like death 
   A                                     G                         A
I am the Kilrain of the 20th Maine and I marched to hell and back again 
    D       Em     F#m    G     
For Colonel Joshua Chamberlain - 
      A                 G
we're all goin' down to Dixieland


  D                                                     G
I am the Kilrain of the 20th Maine and I damn all gentlemen 
                                   D                               Bm
Whose only worth is their father's name and the sweat of a workin' man 
        D                                                              G
Well we come from the farms and the city streets and a hundred foreign lands 
                                          D                 Bm
And we spilled our blood in the battle's heat Now we're all Americans 
   A                                     G                              A
I am the Kilrain of the 20th Maine did I tell you friend I'm a fightin' man 
         D      Em        F#m   G       
And I'll not be back this way again, 
             A                  G
'cause we're all goin' down to Dixieland
            
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