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The Luck Of The Irish chords
John Lennon 1972 (Sometime In New York City)
G
G C G
If you had the luck of the Irish
Bm C D
You'd be sorry and wish you were dead
G C G
You should have the luck of the Irish
D D7 G
And you'd wish you was English instead!
C G
A thousand years of torture and hunger
Bm C D
Drove the people away from their land
G C G
A land full of beauty and wonder
D D7 G D G D G
Was raped by the British brigands! Goddamn! Goddamn!
C G
If you could keep voices like flowers
C G
There'd be shamrock all over the world
C G
If you could drink dreams like Irish streams
C D7 G
Then the world would be high as the mountain of morn
C G
In the 'Pool they told us the story
Bm C D
How the English divided the land
G C G
Of the pain, and the death and the glory
D D7 G
And the poets of auld Eireland
C G
If we could make chains with the morning dew
C G
The world would be like Galway Bay
C G
Let's walk over rainbows like leprechauns
C D7 G
The world would be one big Blarney Stone
C G
Why the hell are the English there anyway?
Bm C D
As they kill with God on their side
G C G
Blame it all on the kids in the IRA
D D7 G D G D G
As the bastards commit genocide! Aye! Aye! Genocide!
If you had the luck of the Irish
Bm C D
You'd be sorry and wish you were dead
G C G
You should have the luck of the Irish
D D7 G
And you'd wish you was English instead!
D D7 G
Yes you'd wish you was English instead!
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