Chords for Duffy's Cut Christy Moore
Tempo:
93.55 bpm
Chords used:
G
A
D
Bm
E
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
But that's always been so with you though because you've always chosen songs with strong narrative
and I want to play another song from the new album now which I think is a Wally Page song
called Duffy's Cut and that's got an amazing story to it hasn't it?
It has indeed and a story that's emerging daily they've now discovered some of the remains
of the [F] 57 who [D] died in Duffy's Cut.
These were men who went from Donegal to America?
Donegal, Leitrim, Sligo, Derry and they went to Pennsylvania in 1832
and were hired on the dock by a man called Duffy who was a kind of a gangerman at the time when
they were building the railroads in [E] America [F] and these men died and it's never been established
[D#m] how they [F] died and Wally was approached to write a song I think [E] for a documentary that
was been made and I heard Wally sing the song earlier in the year and I was very taken by the
because in a very short song of two verses and two choruses he encompasses [F#] the whole [F] story
in a very powerful way.
[G] [Bm] [A]
[D]
[F#] [A] [Em]
[G] [D]
[G] [A] [E] [Em]
[Bm] [D]
[A] [Em]
[G] I'll [A] pay you.
[D] 57 men signed [A] up Duffy promised to fill the cup [Em] if they cut the Melbourne valley [G] up
Mile 59
[Bm] had to be in time [G] for the rail [A] will lie
[E] [B] From [D] Bally, Shannon and the Clinties they sailed right into hell
[G] They suffered [A] like the weeping [G] Christ down Duffy's Cut [A] they swept their blood [Bm] until
his [G] wishing well
[D] But were they taken by the sickness were they hunted down like scum
[G] Was there poison [A] in the water [G] was the cholera [A] or murder
[Bm] The smoke that [G] hit the bullets of [D] the man that the [G] boss has got Ah
[Bm] [A]
[G] [Bm]
[G] [Bm] Like
[G] [Bm]
[A] [E] [A]
[D] Smith and Hawley sisters [A] good people through and through
[Em] Whispered prayers into the victim's ears [G] that's all they could do
[D] How come the bosses [A] had silence on their lips [Em] as 57 Irish navvies [G] were buried in a pit
No [A] stone to mark [Em] their rest in place [Bm] no one [G] to mourn their passing
[E]
[A] [D] From Bally, Shannon and the Clinties they sailed right into hell
[G] They suffered [A] like the weeping [G] Christ down Duffy's [A] Cut they swept their [Bm] blood until
his [G] wishing well
[D] But were they taken by the sickness were they hunted down like scum
[G] Was there poison [A] in the water [G] was the cholera [A] or murder
[Bm] The smoke that [G] hit the bullets from [D] the barrel that the [G] boss has got
[Bm]
[A]
[D] In the summer of 1842 [A] the seven ship John Snow [E] tied up into the port of [G] Pennsylvania
and I want to play another song from the new album now which I think is a Wally Page song
called Duffy's Cut and that's got an amazing story to it hasn't it?
It has indeed and a story that's emerging daily they've now discovered some of the remains
of the [F] 57 who [D] died in Duffy's Cut.
These were men who went from Donegal to America?
Donegal, Leitrim, Sligo, Derry and they went to Pennsylvania in 1832
and were hired on the dock by a man called Duffy who was a kind of a gangerman at the time when
they were building the railroads in [E] America [F] and these men died and it's never been established
[D#m] how they [F] died and Wally was approached to write a song I think [E] for a documentary that
was been made and I heard Wally sing the song earlier in the year and I was very taken by the
because in a very short song of two verses and two choruses he encompasses [F#] the whole [F] story
in a very powerful way.
[G] [Bm] [A]
[D]
[F#] [A] [Em]
[G] [D]
[G] [A] [E] [Em]
[Bm] [D]
[A] [Em]
[G] I'll [A] pay you.
[D] 57 men signed [A] up Duffy promised to fill the cup [Em] if they cut the Melbourne valley [G] up
Mile 59
[Bm] had to be in time [G] for the rail [A] will lie
[E] [B] From [D] Bally, Shannon and the Clinties they sailed right into hell
[G] They suffered [A] like the weeping [G] Christ down Duffy's Cut [A] they swept their blood [Bm] until
his [G] wishing well
[D] But were they taken by the sickness were they hunted down like scum
[G] Was there poison [A] in the water [G] was the cholera [A] or murder
[Bm] The smoke that [G] hit the bullets of [D] the man that the [G] boss has got Ah
[Bm] [A]
[G] [Bm]
[G] [Bm] Like
[G] [Bm]
[A] [E] [A]
[D] Smith and Hawley sisters [A] good people through and through
[Em] Whispered prayers into the victim's ears [G] that's all they could do
[D] How come the bosses [A] had silence on their lips [Em] as 57 Irish navvies [G] were buried in a pit
No [A] stone to mark [Em] their rest in place [Bm] no one [G] to mourn their passing
[E]
[A] [D] From Bally, Shannon and the Clinties they sailed right into hell
[G] They suffered [A] like the weeping [G] Christ down Duffy's [A] Cut they swept their [Bm] blood until
his [G] wishing well
[D] But were they taken by the sickness were they hunted down like scum
[G] Was there poison [A] in the water [G] was the cholera [A] or murder
[Bm] The smoke that [G] hit the bullets from [D] the barrel that the [G] boss has got
[Bm]
[A]
[D] In the summer of 1842 [A] the seven ship John Snow [E] tied up into the port of [G] Pennsylvania
Key:
G
A
D
Bm
E
G
A
D
But that's always been so with you though because you've always chosen songs with strong narrative
and I want to play another song from the new album now which I think is a Wally Page song
called Duffy's Cut and that's got an amazing story to it hasn't it?
It has indeed and a story that's emerging daily they've now discovered some of the remains
of the [F] 57 who [D] died in Duffy's Cut.
These were men who went from Donegal to America?
Donegal, Leitrim, Sligo, Derry and they went to Pennsylvania in 1832
and were hired on the dock by a man called Duffy who was a kind of a gangerman at the time when
they were building the railroads in [E] America [F] and these men died and it's never been established
[D#m] how they [F] died and Wally was approached to write a song I think [E] for a documentary that
was been made and I heard Wally sing the song earlier in the year and I was very taken by the
because in a very short song of two verses and two choruses he encompasses [F#] the whole [F] story
in a very powerful way.
[G] _ _ [Bm] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[F#] _ [A] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[G] _ [A] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [Em] _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
[G] _ _ I'll [A] pay you. _ _
[D] 57 men signed [A] up Duffy promised to fill the cup [Em] if they cut the Melbourne valley [G] up
Mile 59 _
[Bm] had to be in time [G] for the rail [A] will lie
[E] _ _ [B] _ _ From [D] Bally, Shannon and the Clinties they sailed right into hell
[G] They suffered [A] like the weeping [G] Christ down Duffy's Cut [A] they swept their blood [Bm] until
his [G] wishing well
_ [D] But were they taken by the sickness were they hunted down like scum
[G] Was there poison [A] in the water [G] was the cholera [A] or murder
[Bm] The smoke that [G] hit the bullets of [D] the man that the [G] boss has got Ah
[Bm] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ Like _
[G] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ _
[D] Smith and Hawley sisters [A] good people through and through
[Em] Whispered prayers into the victim's ears [G] that's all they could do _
_ _ [D] How come the bosses [A] had silence on their lips [Em] as 57 Irish navvies [G] were buried in a pit
_ No [A] stone to mark [Em] their rest in place [Bm] no one [G] to mourn their passing
[E] _ _ _ _
[A] _ [D] From Bally, Shannon and the Clinties they sailed right into hell
[G] They suffered [A] like the weeping [G] Christ down Duffy's [A] Cut they swept their [Bm] blood until
his [G] wishing well
_ [D] But were they taken by the sickness were they hunted down like scum
[G] Was there poison [A] in the water [G] was the cholera [A] or murder
[Bm] The smoke that [G] hit the bullets from [D] the barrel that the [G] boss has got
[Bm] _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] In the summer of 1842 [A] the seven ship John Snow [E] tied up into the port of [G] _ Pennsylvania _
and I want to play another song from the new album now which I think is a Wally Page song
called Duffy's Cut and that's got an amazing story to it hasn't it?
It has indeed and a story that's emerging daily they've now discovered some of the remains
of the [F] 57 who [D] died in Duffy's Cut.
These were men who went from Donegal to America?
Donegal, Leitrim, Sligo, Derry and they went to Pennsylvania in 1832
and were hired on the dock by a man called Duffy who was a kind of a gangerman at the time when
they were building the railroads in [E] America [F] and these men died and it's never been established
[D#m] how they [F] died and Wally was approached to write a song I think [E] for a documentary that
was been made and I heard Wally sing the song earlier in the year and I was very taken by the
because in a very short song of two verses and two choruses he encompasses [F#] the whole [F] story
in a very powerful way.
[G] _ _ [Bm] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[F#] _ [A] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[G] _ [A] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [Em] _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
[G] _ _ I'll [A] pay you. _ _
[D] 57 men signed [A] up Duffy promised to fill the cup [Em] if they cut the Melbourne valley [G] up
Mile 59 _
[Bm] had to be in time [G] for the rail [A] will lie
[E] _ _ [B] _ _ From [D] Bally, Shannon and the Clinties they sailed right into hell
[G] They suffered [A] like the weeping [G] Christ down Duffy's Cut [A] they swept their blood [Bm] until
his [G] wishing well
_ [D] But were they taken by the sickness were they hunted down like scum
[G] Was there poison [A] in the water [G] was the cholera [A] or murder
[Bm] The smoke that [G] hit the bullets of [D] the man that the [G] boss has got Ah
[Bm] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ Like _
[G] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ _
[D] Smith and Hawley sisters [A] good people through and through
[Em] Whispered prayers into the victim's ears [G] that's all they could do _
_ _ [D] How come the bosses [A] had silence on their lips [Em] as 57 Irish navvies [G] were buried in a pit
_ No [A] stone to mark [Em] their rest in place [Bm] no one [G] to mourn their passing
[E] _ _ _ _
[A] _ [D] From Bally, Shannon and the Clinties they sailed right into hell
[G] They suffered [A] like the weeping [G] Christ down Duffy's [A] Cut they swept their [Bm] blood until
his [G] wishing well
_ [D] But were they taken by the sickness were they hunted down like scum
[G] Was there poison [A] in the water [G] was the cholera [A] or murder
[Bm] The smoke that [G] hit the bullets from [D] the barrel that the [G] boss has got
[Bm] _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] In the summer of 1842 [A] the seven ship John Snow [E] tied up into the port of [G] _ Pennsylvania _