Chords for Fall Down Billy O'Shea (story and song) - John Doyle

_ _ _ _ _ I'm _ _ _ _ going to invite two guests up here and they're going to take a _ _ _ _ _ little home race,
Stephanie.
_ _ _ _ _ [N] Stephanie is a very special guest because she doesn't come around with me often. _ _ _
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[Eb] _ [D] _ _ _ _ Just stand here?
_ Yeah, and then [Bm] you sit here.
Do you want to [B] sit with me? _ _
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_ _ _ _ John, I kind of don't know what's happening.
[G] _ _ _ [Bb] _ 64. _ _
[Bm] That's the first time for that song.
You haven't [Abm] played that before.
Oh, this actually is a song.
It actually does work.
[Am] Oh, yeah.
Okay, [D] let's put that open for [Gm] you because_
_ Put her away from me.
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ So this is another singer along as well.
[G] This is a song from the great singer of the man called Michael Black.
[Ab] _ _ _ _ [B] San Francisco.
[D] _ Yeah.
_ And we did a recording of him a number of years ago, a couple of years [Bm] ago.
Actually, he stayed in this house. _ _ _
_ [C] [Bm] And so _ this is a song that I wrote.
And this is one of the great songs about how not just England, but in general, like during
the [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ wars_
During the wars, if you _ _ _ [Gm] were_
_ Sorry, [D] I didn't mean to [Db] do that.
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_ [Ab] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _ _
_ If you were on_
During the naval battles, when they killed enough men on the ships, they used to always
run out of men.
[Db] And so what they would do is shanghai people or press gang people. _ _
Basically, what that meant was they were_
When they were on _ _ a place_
Normally, people would desert because the handling was so rough.
And _ so what they would do is get drunk people or get people drunk even. _ _
When they were drunk enough or they were collapsed enough, they'd throw them on board.
And then you were actually on the sea for the next two years or [Eb] however long until you deserted yourself.
And so that's what this song is about. _ _
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