Chords for Irish Ways and Irish Laws

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_ [Em] Once upon a [F#]
time there _ _ _ _ was _ _ _ _ _
_ [Em] _ Irish ways and [B] Irish _ _ laws
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_ _ _ Villages of Irish _ _ _ blood _ _ _ _ _
_ [Am] Waken [F#] to the _ [B] morning _ _ _
[Am] _ _ Waken to [F#] the _ morning _ _ _
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_ [Em] Then the Vikings came [B] _ around _ _
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_ [Em] Turned us up and turned [B] us _ down _
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_ [Am] _ Started building boats [Em] and [B] _ towns _
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They [C] tried to change [D] our _ [E] living _ _ _
_ [C] Tried to change our _ [A] _ _ _ living
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_ _ Crumwell and his [B] soldiers _ came _
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[Em] _ _ Started _ centuries of [Bm] _ _ _
shame _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] But they could not make us [B] turn _ _
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We [C] _ are a [B] river _ [Em] flowing _ _ _
_ [C] We are a [A] river _ _ flowing _ _
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_ [E] Again and again [Em] the soldiers [B] _ _ came
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_ [Em] _ Burned our houses, stole our [Bm] _ _
grain _ _ _ _ _
_ [Am] _ Shot the farmers [B] in the _ _ fields
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_ [C] _ Working [D] for a _ [Em] living _ _ _
_ [C] _ [Dm] Working for a [E] _ [A] living _ _ _
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Eight hundred years we have been [B] _ down _
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[E] The secret [Em] of the water [Bm] _ sound _
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_ [Am] Has kept the spirit [B] of the _ man _
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_ [C] Above the [D] pain _
_ [E] descending _ _ _
[C] Above the [Dm] pain [B] _ descending _ _ _
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_ Today the [Em] struggle _ [B] carries on _
_ I [Bm] _ _ _
_ [E] _ wonder [Em] if I live [B] so _ long
_ _ _ [Bm] _ To _ [Am] see the gates being [B] opened _ wide _
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To [C] a people [D] and their _ [E] freedom _ _ _
[C] A people [Dm] and their _ [A] freedom
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_ [E] Once [Em] upon a [B] time there _ _ _ was _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ Irish ways [Em]
and Irish [Bm] _ _ laws
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_ [Am] _ Villages of [B] Irish _ blood _
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Waken [C] _ _ [Dm] to the [A] _
[E] morning _ _ _ _
_ [C] Waken [A] to the _ morning
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