Chords for Bell X1 - "Rocky Took a Lover"

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_ I lived in a part of Dublin _ called Smithfield [D] for about six years.
[G] _ _ It's the old market area of town and [D] _ _
on [C] our street there was a guy who had been homeless
_ [G] in and around that area for about [A] 25 [D] years _ [G] _ [C] _ and he'd been an amateur boxer [G] in a previous
life _ so he had the nickname Rocky.
[C] _ _
_ [G] _ And we got to know him pretty well over the years and he was _ [D] an _ [G] _ _ [C] _
absolute gentleman when
he was sober [Gm] and was very aware of [D] how kind of dysfunctional his life had become.
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_ But when he was drunk [D] he was _ [G] obnoxious and [C] really _ he smashed our [Gm] front window for playing
music too [D] loud one day. _ _
[G] [C] I think it was our own music we were listening to so he probably had every [G] right to.
_ _ But [D] _
he [G] _ [C] used to sleep out [Gm] the lane way at the back of the house on this wooden pallet _ _
[D] _ _ _ [G] _ [C] and _
I'd wake in the morning and often [Gm] just see him out there lying still [D] asleep.
_ _ [G] _ [C] And one morning I looked out and he was [Gm] _ _ lying in his usual spot but he [D] had taken a [G] lady
[C] friend _ _ _ _ and _ [G] _ _
this song is an imagining of a [C] conversation they may have had that morning.
_ _ [G] It's called Rocky Took a Lover.
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_ _ [G] He said I want to shine in the eye of Orion [Em] but I drove my soul [C] _
[G] through the black hole
and she [D] said that's a wonderful way [C] to wake me. _ _ _
_ [G] She went so nice [D] last [Em] night.
_ _ [D] You're such an asshole [G] when you're drunk and he said at [D] least I'm okay in [C] the mornings.
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He said the three wise men came a long way [Em] _ following [C] that pinhole in [G] the sky.
_ _ [D] Yeah that one right [C]
there.
_ _ _ _ [G] She said I don't believe in any old Jesus [Em] if there was a God [C] then why is my [G] ass _
_ [D] the
perfect height [C] for kicking?
_ _ _ _ [D] And he said _ I'll shine [C] for you. _
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He said I'll burn [C] for you.
_ [G] _ _ _ He [D]
said _ I'll shine _ [C]
for you.
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[D] _ _ _ _ That's what _ [G]
I'll do.
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[G] He said they're like [D] headlights in [Em] the rearview mirror.
_ [C] They're closer [G] than they seem [D] and from this gutter [C] we're still staring at the stars.
_ [G] She said would you go and shite last [Em] night?
All you did [C] was curse those [G]
stars.
_ [D] He said they sang to you [C] of hope.
_ _ _ _ _ [G] [Am] He said the sun gives [C] life _ and [G] it takes it away.
[D] _ _ _ [Am] But like all [C] the greats _ [G] it'll burn out [D] someday.
_ She [Am] said I don't mind.
[C] _ _ [G] I don't want to get [D] bored.
_ _ [Am] I don't want to [C] end up _ [G] _
beached on the [D] shore.
I want to be [A] that [D] star.
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_ _ [D] I want to be [A] that star.
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_ [D] _ Oh let [G] me be [A] that star.
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_ _ [D] I want to be [A] that _ [C] star.
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Cause then I can shine _ [C] for you.
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_ [D] Then I'll burn _ [C]
for you.
[G] _ _ _ _ She said [D] _ I'll shine _ [C] for you. _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ That's what _ [G] I'll do.
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_ [G] _ [C] _ _ _ That's what I [G]'ll do.
_ That's _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ what I'll do.
That's what [G] I'll do.
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_ _ [C] _ _ _ That's what [G] I'll do.
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_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ That's what [G] I'll do.
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