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Luke Kelly - Raglan Road Chords

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Raglan Road Chords

(ver. 1)
Luke Kelly
RAGLAN ROAD: LUKE KELLY (Traditional/P. Kavanagh) 3/4 - 88


|%   |: Repeat the previous Chord and Measure of 3-counts.

INTRO: |D   |%

VERSE 1:

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On  Raglan Road of an Autumn day,
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I saw her first and I knew.
    |G       |%         |D      |Bm
That her dark hair would weave a snare,
    |D      |%      |A   |%
that I might one day rue.
 |G      |%     |D    |Bm
I saw the danger and I passed,
 |D          |%      |A   |%
a-long the en-chanted way.
     |D         |%         |%      |G
And I said: "Let grief be a falling leaf,
      |D      |G     |D    |%
at the dawning of the day."

VERSE 2:

  |D      |%        |%    |G
On Grafton Street in Novem-ber,
          |D        |G       |D    |%
we tripped lightly a-long the ledge.
    |G      |%         |D     |Bm
Of a deep ra-vine where can be seen,
   |D       |%        |A     |%
the worth of passion's pledge.
   |G       |%           |D     |Bm
The Queen of Hearts still making tarts,
   |D    |%     |A   |%
and I not making hay.
    |D        |%   |%     |G
Oh I loved too much and by such,
          |D        |G       |D   |%

VERSE 3:

  |D       |%    |%     |G
I  gave her gifts of the mind,
 |D           |G     |D    |%
I gave her the secret sign.
      |G           |%      |D       |Bm
That's known to the artists who have known,
        |D      |%        |A    |%
the true Gods of sound and stone.
   |G       |%        |D   |Bm
And word and tint with-out  stint,
 |D       |%       |A   |%
I gave her poems to say.
    |D      |%                 |%        |G
With her own name there and her long dark hair,
    |D          |G        |D   |%
like clouds over fields of May.

VERSE 4:

    |D    |%           |%         |G
On a quiet street where old ghosts meet,
 |D      |G      |D   |%
I see her walking now.
 |G       |%    |D      |Bm
A-way from me so hurried-ly,
  |D     |%      |A    |%
my reason must al-low.
    |G     |%        |D   |Bm
That I have loved not as I should,
 |D       |%      |A    |%
a creature made of clay.
        |D    |%       |%         |G
When the angel woes the clay he'll lose,
   |D           |G      |D   |D
his wings at the dawn of day.


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