Chords for Damien Dempsey - rocky road

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But in [E] the merry month of June and flush from home I started, left the girls at home [Bm] all sad and [E] broken, hearted, saluted, father dear, kiss me darlin' mother, I drank your pint of [Bm] beer, make me [E] confess, mother, they're not the reason you can't play where I was born, but the [Bm] stealth I taught to banish ghosts,
and [E] off of me brand new pair of gloves, that was over the barge, blinded [Bm] all the tabs, over the rocky loads, a double and [E] wound to sweep away, burnt the hair, turned her down the rocky [Bm] road, and on away to trouble and [E] work for doggie dad. _ _ _ _ _
[Em] In Mullingar the night I rested, saw where he started fight, a [D] lonely small and bright, [Em] a dairy truck and drop of the pure, chaffing her from sinkin' after paddies [D] of cure, every song [E] for drinkin' to see the lassies [D] smile, [E] laughin' on the pile, at the curious [D] guy with such a heart, [E] a bubblin' nasty mulling heart, my desire acquired, the life was [D] nearly tired,
now on the rocky road, a double and wound [Em] to sweep away, burnt the hair, turned her down the rocky [D] road, and on away to trouble and [E] work for doggie dad. _ _ _ _
And double and next to play, my [Em] daughter bein' pretty to me, so soon to [D] play, I'm now new but fast for [Em] city, so then I took a stroll, all among the quality bones of it [D] was told, in the new [Em] black canopies, drunk [Bm] with glassy wine, [Em] as we looked [D] behind [E] the bones of colouring [D] white, a tonguey stick, [Em] a bowl of quail, and a drum, set my heart [D] afloat, [Em] wasn't [D] much involved, I was a rocky load, a [Bm] double and wound to [Em] keep, and where we went, the hair, burnt her down the rocky [D] road, and on away to trouble and work for doggie dad.
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From there I got away, me spirit never failing, and the thunder gave, [Bm] just as the ship [Em] was sailing, captain at me roar, said the door to party, when I jumped aboard, [D] the cabin [Bm] fell to party, [Em] down the [D] mountain [Em] peak, made the [D] party [Em] big, and the [D] party cheered, so what, I held me [Em] bubblin' when the [D] party had, [Em] wished me [D] self was [Em] dead, I bet the [D] fire was dead, I was a rocky load, a double and [Bm] wound to [Em] sweep away, burnt the hair, turned her down the rocky road, and on away to trouble and work for doggie dad. _ _
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[Em] The boys at Liverpool, when we safely landed, calmed me self but [D] real, I couldn't no [Bm] longer [E] stand it, blood began to boil, temper I was bruised, and poured out [D] exile, they began [Em] to busin' around [D] me, so as I [Em] shall lay me [D] isle of life, [E] away [D] boys, far away, for I [Em] was a humble immigrant, and now was I pay, now you did [Bm] me a [Em] pay, quickly [D] cleared away, for the rocky load, a double and wound to [Em] keep, and where we went, the hair, burnt her down the rocky road, and on away to trouble and work for doggie dad.
The boys at Liverpool, when we safely landed, calmed me self but real, I couldn't no longer stand it, blood began to boil, temper I was bruised, and poured out exile, they began to busin' around me, so as I shall lay me isle of life, away boys, far away, for I was a humble immigrant, and now was I pay, now you did me a pay, quickly cleared away, for the rocky [D] load, a double _ and wound to [Em] keep, and where we went, the hair, burnt her down the rocky road, [D] and on away to trouble and work [Bm] for _ _ doggie _ [Em] _ dad.
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