Chords for Children Of 16 - Live at Vicar St, with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and special guest John Sheahan.

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[D] _ _ All of our 1916 celebrations are kind of over now and _ _ _ _
_ [Gm] We concluded _ _
_ [G] Seven Joe Duffy concluded our
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The subject in a manner of speaking or at least officially our last
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_ _ _ Talking about and singing about the children who were killed in 1916 happened in Glasnevin Cemetery last Sunday And
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_ But um 100 years ago [D] today it wasn't over yet _ to suit people being executed
_ _ _ We're gonna have a very special guest on this song
It's a vagabond.
I found playing on the street corner just before the show _
_ But he said half fiddle will travel would you please [F] welcome John Sheehan the one and only
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_ _ _ in Dublin [A] town
[G] One Easter [D] _ morn a _ hundred _ years [A] ago
_ _ [D] The rebels [A] led
[G] _ _ [D] Rising from the [A] city's _ [D] GPO
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_ _ [D] Brave heroes and their enemies _ fell
_ _ Civilians _ in between _ _
And among [A] the [D] dead and fallen _ were the _ children of
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Those [D] _ _ children _
[A] _ [G] of the tenement [D] _
slums who _ daily with
their _ pals Of brazen _
Wild [G] brigade [D] sprung up between the two _ _ _
With their hand carts
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over [G] _ _ [D] cobblestone
_ They _ rattled skid and [G] tow
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as
[G] This _ [A] governs through [G] the _ _ [A]
crossfire [D] and the go _ _
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[D] Oh
_ _ The war zone _ [G] of the _ [D] capital
_ [Bm] The _ [A] bombs and shelling [Bm] made
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_ [D] And snipers [A]
bullets _ [G] _ pierced and [D]
whipped [Bm] the suffered _ [A]
a cruel [Bm] _ haze _
There was fighting [F#m]
from the [G] _ [A] Union to [G] the
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The [G] green _ _
_ [Bm] And it made [A] a great [G] excitement _ [A] _
for [G] the _ [A] children [D] of
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_ [D] Six days [A] had been [G] the rebels [D]
pay [Bm] a _ [A] grave and bloody [B] toll
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_ [D] But through their [A] _
blood [G] and martyrdom
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_ _ [Bm] Republic _ soon was born _
_ [G] Higher _ [A] lofted streets [G] and buildings [F#m]
now
_ [G] their names [A] can be [G] seen _ _
But [Bm] still missing _ [A]
from the [G] _ pages [F#m]
are
[G] the _ [F#m] children of
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_ [D] Nor Pierce nor [A] Clark [G] _ _ [D] McDonough nor [G] the _ _
Connolly we know
_ [D] _ _ _ Would rest [A] where they
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_ _ [D] Remembered on [G] a _ _ pedestal _
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_ _ [B] _ _ [G] And they [A] know
those [G] _
fathers [A] _ of
[G] Our nation [F#m] _ proud and [G] free _ _ _
_ [Bm] Under our sisters [A] _
and
[G] our [F#m] brothers then
[G] the _ [D] children of
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[D] _ _ Featured Geraldine authority on the harp over there _ _ _
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