Chords for Battlefield Band - The Dear Green Place

_ _ _ _ It [Gm] _ _
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was by the clear Mull and Diner [Am] Bund
He meets and runs with [Gm] the river Clyde
And they tell the tale of the Holy [Am] One
A _ [Gm] _
_ _ _ [Bb] holy man [F] _
became [Gm] king
His name they say was King [Dm] Tiber
[G] By the stars [Cm] where the Christmas called
[F] The day of [Eb] Christmas _ lore
_ [Gm] Now the salmon ran through [Cm] the river stream
[F] And they salted them [Dm] by the banks of Clyde
[Gm] And the faces [Cm] glowed as the silver flowed
And [F] the place arose [Bb] by the riverside
There was cloth to dye [F] and hoes to buy
[Gm]
The traders came from [Dm] all around
[Gm] And they raised a glass [Cm] to the dearing [F] place
The place [Eb] that was a town
_ _ [Bb] There is a town [F] that once was green
[Gm] And the river flowed to [Dm] the sea
The [Bb] river flows [Eb] forever on
[Gm] But the dear green [Eb] place is gone
_ _ [Am] When the [Dm] pharmacists came to buy the [G] iron
And folk [Em] were thrown in [Am] the fire and lime
And the [Dm] Irishman and the Highland [G] man
And the hungry man came with welling [C] hands
They wanted [G] like a priest to live
[Am] Their empty [Em] bellies needed fill
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Farmyard [Dm] was another world
[G] From the dirty old [F] ground he came
[C] _ _ [Am] Now you may have heard of the foreign [G] trade
And fortunes made by tobacco [Am] lords
But the working man [Dm] slaved his life away
[G] And the nearly grave [C] was his sole reward
A dreary room, [G] a crowded slum
[Am] Disease and hunger [Em] everywhere _
[Am] And the price to [Dm] pay was another [G] day
To fight the [F] anger and [C] despair
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There is a [G] town that once was green
[Am] And the river [Em] flowed to the sea
The [C] river flows [F] forever on
_ _ _ But [Am] the _ dear green place _ [F] is gone _ _ _ _ _ _
[Am] A thousand [E] years have been here and gone
[G]
Since Cantagar and Saul, the Mites and Clyde
[Am] How many dreams [D] and how many tears
[G] In a thousand years [F] of a city's [C] life
A city _ [G] hard, a city [E] proud
And no mean [Em] city it has been
[Am] Perhaps [D] tomorrow it yet may be
The dear green [F] place again _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] There is a [G] town that once was green
[Am] And the river _ [Em] flowed to the sea
[C] The river flows forever [F] _
on
[Am] But the [Am] dear green [F] place _ is gone
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_ _ _ _ Thank you. _
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