Chords for Could Only Happen In Ireland

[C] [G] Hello, hello, hello.
Is that your strength [C] like that?
Well, anyway, I_
_ [Am] Hello and welcome to Ireland.
[C] _ _
My [G] name is Dolly and I'm here on vacation
and I [C] had not planned to sing [G] tonight.
I was going to be entertained,
but he says he knows my song,
Code [C] of Many Colors,
and he asked me if I would [G] sing it.
And I thank all of you for [Dbm] being fans
and I'm having [C] a great time here,
so we don't know how we're going to sound
because this is a first for both of us,
but this is a song I wrote.
It's a true story from my own life
and I'm sure a lot of you folks can relate to it.
So I hope maybe we [G] do okay.
[C] You're Steve, right?
That's right.
And you're what?
Shemis.
Shemis?
[Gb] I'm so happy to [C] be here.
All right.
All right.
Just start picking them.
_ [Gm] _ [C] _ _ _ _
Shemis.
Through the [Dm] years [C] I go wandering once again
_ [Dm] [C] Back to the seasons of [F] my youth
I do [C] recall
[Dm] The box [Em] of rags that [C] someone gave us _
[C] And how my mama put the [F] rags to use
The _ [C] rags of many colors
But every piece was small
And I didn't have a coat
And it [G] was wet [A] down in [G] the fall
So mama [C] sewed the rags together
She [F] sewed every piece with [Am] love
And made [C] my coat of many [G] colors
That I was [C] so proud of
While mama sewed
She told a story from the Bible she had read
About a coat of many colors
Joseph [Eb] wore and then she [G] said
[C] I hope this coat will bring you
[G] Good [F] luck and happiness
[C] And I just couldn't wait to wear it
[A] And mama blessed [C] me
_ _ [F] In my coat of many colors
_ [C] _ _ _ [F] But it all [A] progressed
[C] But I [G] wore it so well
And I'm so happy
[Eb] [C] Although we had no money
[F] I was rich as I could be
[C] In my coat of many [G] colors
That mama made [C] for me
[G] _ [C] What was the rest of it?
[Dm] [C] Sewing patches [Dm] on [C] my [Dm] breeches
[C] And holding both my shoes
In my coat of many colors
[G] Well I hurried off to school
Just [C] to find the others
[F] Oh not me [C] and my coat
Of many colors
[B] That mama made [C] for me
And oh I couldn't understand [G] that
[C] Cause I felt I was rich
And then I told [Dm] them [C] of the [G] love
My mama sewed in every stitch
[C] I even told them all that story
That [F] mama told me while she sewed
And just [C] why my coat of many colors
Was [G] worth more [C] than all their clothes
But [F] they _ _ [C] _ _
all say
[F] One is only [Dm] poor
[C] If [G] they choose to be
Oh yes [C] it's true _
That [F] I was [C] rich as I could be
Of many [G] colors
That mama made [C] for me Everybody sing
[G] In [F] my coat of many colors
That [C] mama _ made for [F] me
Made on _ [C] _ [G] for it so proudly _
[C] Although we had no money
[F] I was rich as I could [C] be
In my coat of many colors
[G] That mama made for [F] [Fm] me
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _